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NEW DELHI: Cyprus has shown a keen tendency to procure BrahMoS cruise missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles from India. Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides’ caller sojourn to New Delhi has acceptable the signifier for this imaginable acquisition.
However, the imaginable of Cyprus acquiring BrahMos missiles has already triggered alarm bells wrong Türkiye’s strategical and information circles.Besides BrahMoS, Cyprus is besides funny successful procuring India’s kamikaze drones similar Nagastra-1 and Skystriker. If these defence deals are finalised, the pacts volition people a large strategical setback for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, fixed Ankara’s decades-long concern of bluish Cyprus.
If the deals are inked, it volition besides people the archetypal deployment of Indian-made weapons systems successful the Eastern Mediterranean region.Türkiye’s determination to secretly dispatch hundreds of drones to Pakistan during the highest of the May 2025 Indo-Pak struggle and its repeated arguable remarks connected Kashmir connected antithetic platforms had already created a rift betwixt New Delhi and Ankara.Defence analysts successful Ankara fearfulness that deploying these supersonic missiles oregon kamikaze drones successful the Mediterranean could fundamentally displacement the determination subject equilibrium and endanger Turkiye's security.
Countries astir the satellite had already witnessed however India utilized BrahMos missiles to destruct Pakistan’s cardinal subject bases during the May conflict. Some reports assertion that the imaginable BrahMos acquisition to Cyprus would beryllium made nether a defence bundle of astir euro 1.2 cardinal allocated to the Greek Cypriot medication nether the European Union’s SAFE program.During Christodoulides’ visit, PM Modi and the President welcomed the decision of the roadmap for Bilateral Defence Cooperation (2026–2031) betwixt the defence ministries.
They underscored the imaginable for important practice successful the defence assemblage and besides welcomed the signing of the method statement for the constitution of authoritative coordination and practice connected Search and Rescue (SAR) matters.“These volition supply an organization model for promoting defence concern practice and exertion partnership, gathering connected the momentum of the India-EU Defence and Security Partnership signed connected Jan 27, 2026, arsenic good arsenic facilitate exchanges, grooming and capableness building.
