Turkey and Britain signed a deal to jointly build fighter jets during Prime Minister Theresa May's visit to Ankara on Saturday.
May signed a $125 million defence equipment deal with Turkey and promised to push for more trade between the NATO allies, 'cautioned' Ankara on human rights following last year's failed coup.
May hailed the deal, which involves Britain's BAE Systems and TAI (Turkish Aerospace Industries) working together to develop the TF-X Turkish fighter programme, saying it showed "that Britain is a great, global, trading nation and that we are open for business".
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told reporters that he discussed steps towards defence industry cooperation with May, and that he hoped to increase annual trade with Britain to $20 billion from $15.6 billion now.
