ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey has cancelled a $3.4-billion (£2.2 billion) tender provisionally awarded to China to develop a long-range missile defence system, the defence ministry said on Tuesday, a project that had stirred the concern of Ankara's NATO allies.
Turkey, which had chosen China Precision Machinery Import and Export Corp as the preferred candidate, has decided to focus instead on developing a defence system with domestic resources, the ministry said in a statement.
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