Turkey clinches deal to sell 4 warships to Pakistan

Metin Gurcan

Jul 9, 2018

Pakistan Navy's servicemen march after hoisting the national flags of participating countries during the opening ceremony of Pakistan Navyís Multinational Exercise AMAN-17, in Karachi, Pakistan February 10, 2017. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro - RC11ADB28990 — Pakistani navy's servicemen march after hoisting the national flags of participating countries during the opening ceremony of the navy’s multinational exercise AMAN-17, Karachi, Pakistan, Feb. 10, 2017.

Turkey recently logged a critical achievement by winning a bid to supply the Pakistani navy with four warships. The deal will be Turkey's first for corvettes and the "largest single export [deal] in the history of the Turkish defense industry,” Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli announced July 5.

Canikli said Turkey and Pakistan decided two of the corvettes will be built in the Istanbul Shipyard and the other two in Pakistan’s Karachi. Negotiations had been underway for six months.