Description
The debate over the efficiency of defence offset regulations to contribute to the indigenous defence industries continues. While some of the scholars of defence procurement argue that defence offsets complicate the transaction and increases the time and the energy spent on every project and thus lead to a lose-lose situation both for the buyer and the seller; other scholars, especially from developing world, provides us with certain cases that shows defence offsets can contribute to the defence industrialisation. While Turkey emerges as an interesting case which might provide us an example in which defence offset regulations work, regulations can hardly keep up with the dynamism of the industry. There have been some changes in the defence offset regulations of Turkey throughout the years, albeit irregular. This work aims to make sense of the change in the defence offset regulations of Turkey, by comparing the regulations and trying to spot the patterns and continuities/discontinuities. Apart from the regulations, academic literature on defence offsets and semi-structured elite interviews conducted with experts from defence bureaucracy and from defence industry of Turkey.
