"Turkey in Urgent Quest for Helicopter Gunships
By: David Donald
July 2, 2010
While it looks forward to accepting its first TAI/AgustaWestland T129 attack helicopter, Turkey is urgently seeking interim helicopter gunships in the face of increased terrorist actions by the PKK and other Kurdish separatist groups. The situation has become desperate as Turkey's current force of Bell AH-1W Cobras has fallen to just six operational aircraft, plus a few earlier single-engine Cobras."
More:Turkey in Urgent Quest for Helicopter Gunships: AINonline