ANKARA, Dec 15 (Reuters) – NATO member Turkey said on Wednesday negotiations to buy 121 helicopters from bidders U.S. Sikorsky Aircraft and Italy’s Agusta-Westland were continuing after their offers were found to be ‘inadequate’.
‘We will continue talks with the two bidders to try to negotiate a lower price,’ Turkey’s Defence Minister Vecdi Gonul told journalists at the end of a defence ministry committee meeting which was chaired by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan.
The helicopters, which would be used by the Turkish armed forces and the police, are part of a modernisation of the country’s defence.
The only two bidders are Sikorsky, a unit of United Technologies, and Agusta-Westland, a unit of Finmeccanica SpA. Keywords: TURKEY HELICOPTERS/BIDDERS
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