Turkey’s remarkable discovery of the Yildirimhan intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) revealed less about the missile itself than about the country’s accelerating move toward strategic autonomy in an increasingly volatile Middle East. Reports this month of Yildirimhan’s debut at Istanbul’s SAHA 2026 defense exhibition portrayed the missile as a symbol of Turkey’s ambition to become a (…)
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