Turkey and the United Kingdom on Monday finalised a landmark agreement worth £8 billion ($10.7 billion) for the sale of 20 Eurofighter Typhoon jets, marking the first new order for the British-made fighter aircraft since 2017. The deal was signed in Ankara during UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s first official visit to Turkey, in the presence of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “Our countries may sit at either end of Europe, but we’re strong partners, working more closely together now than ever before,” Starmer said at the signing ceremony. He added that the deal would “bolster security across Nato, deepen our bilateral defence cooperation, and boost economic growth here and in the United Kingdom, securing 20,000 British jobs.” Britain’s defence ministry described the order

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