Yucel Altunbasak, Chairman of the Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey, informed news reporters that they, together with the Institute of Defensive Industry, are continuing the testing of, and the range expansion activities for, Turkish-made long-range missiles.       

Altunbasak also noted that this year they will continue to test 300-km-range missiles, and, by the end of the year, they will start testing 500-km-range missiles. He also informed that they will carry out activities toward building 1,500-km- and, subsequently, 2,500-km-range missiles, too, Zaman daily of Turkey informs.