Turkish Fighter Christened ‘Kaan’ In Formal Rollout

Kaan

Credit: Tony Osborne/Aviation Week
ANKARA, Turkey—Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan formally named the country’s new TF-X indigenous fighter on May 1 as the aircraft was being publicly unveiled for the first time. Christening the aircraft Kaan—Turkish for king—Erdogan said it represented a “dream that the nation had been...

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