Haluk Bayraktar awarded country's highest national honor by order of President Ibrahim Traore.
The chief executive officer of Turkish drone manufacturer Baykar was awarded a state medal Tuesday in Burkina Faso, where the company’s Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been exported.
Haluk Bayraktar received the Ordre de L'etalon Officier medal, the country's highest national honor, by the order of Burkina Faso’s President Ibrahim Traore for his outstanding and exceptional contributions to the West African nation’s peace, security and counter-terrorism activities.
Bayraktar was presented with the medal by André Roch Compaoré, the country's grand chancellor, at a ceremony held in the capital Ouagadougou.
Bayraktar later met with President Traore, who thanked him for his work.
The Bayraktar TB2 is Baykar's most well-known and extensively covered system, with a wide range of combat experience from Libya to Karabakh and most recently Ukraine.
Source: Anadolu Agency
Poland, which does not hesitate to spend higher on defense, as well as countries with modest defense budgets, from Sub-Saharan Africa to ex-Soviet geography, purchase Bayraktar TB2 armed drones.
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Turkey's first national and indigenous UAV Bayraktar TB2 will be exported to Poland. The agreement on export was signed by General Manager of Baykar Haluk Bayraktar and Minister of Defense of Poland Mariusz Blaszczak in the presence of President of the Turkish Republic Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Sebastian Duda at the Presidential Complex.
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