{"id":151071,"date":"2025-07-29T16:39:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T23:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=151071"},"modified":"2025-07-29T16:39:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T23:39:35","slug":"sri-lanka-strengthens-defence-ties-with-turkiye-at-idef-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/07\/29\/sri-lanka-strengthens-defence-ties-with-turkiye-at-idef-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"SRI LANKA STRENGTHENS DEFENCE TIES WITH T\u00dcRKIYE AT IDEF 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Ministry of Defence \u00a0&#8211; Media Centre<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The 17<sup>th<\/sup> International Defence Industry Fair (IDEF 2025), one of the world\u2019s premier defence exhibitions, was held under the auspices of the Presidency of the Republic of T\u00fcrkiye, hosted by the Turkish Ministry of National Defence, and organized by the Turkish Armed Forces Foundation (TAFF). This prestigious event provided a global platform for showcasing cutting-edge defence technologies and fostering international collaboration in the defence sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IDEF 2025 took place from 22 to 27 July at the Istanbul Expo Centre, where the Deputy Minister of Defence, Major General Aruna Jayasekara (Retd) undertook an official visit to the Republic of T\u00fcrkiye at the invitation of Mr. Bilal Durdali, the Deputy Minister of National Defence of T\u00fcrkiye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his visit, Major General Jayasekara (Retd) engaged in discussions with several senior defence officials from T\u00fcrkiye. Notable among them were Deputy Ministers of National Defence Mr. Bilal Durdali and Mr. Musa Heybet, Commander of the Turkish Land Forces General Sel\u00e7uk Bayraktaro\u011flu, Commander of the Naval Forces Admiral Erc\u00fcment Tatl\u0131o\u011flu, and Commander of the Air Force, Air General Ziya Cemal Kad\u0131o\u011flu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bilateral discussions focused on exploring avenues to enhance defence cooperation between Sri Lanka and T\u00fcrkiye. Both sides reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening mutual ties through cooperative initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials from the Ministry of Defence of Sri Lanka also accompanied the Deputy Minister during the visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Defence \u00a0&#8211; Media Centre The 17th International Defence Industry Fair (IDEF 2025), one of the world\u2019s premier defence exhibitions, was held under the auspices of the Presidency of the Republic of T\u00fcrkiye, hosted by the Turkish Ministry of National Defence, and organized by the Turkish Armed Forces Foundation (TAFF). This prestigious event provided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}