Relationship dossier
Turkey
Poland
Relationship assessment
Practical defense cooperation, highlighted by Poland’s purchase of Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drones
Turkey toward Poland
+35Turkey concluded a 2021 agreement to export Bayraktar TB2 armed drones to Poland, enabling a major Turkish defense export to the Polish government.
Poland toward Turkey
+35Poland purchased Bayraktar TB2 armed drones from Turkey under a 2021 agreement, establishing a significant government-to-government defense procurement relationship.
Overall relationship
+35The relationship includes practical defense cooperation, most clearly demonstrated by Poland’s procurement of Turkish armed drones. This provides a concrete basis for cooperation, though the scope of broader bilateral collaboration is less clear.
How to read these scores
Scores are rough judgments, not objective measurements or current verification. Directional scores describe government policy and conduct, not public opinion. The overall score is an independent estimate, never an average.
- −100
- Extreme sustained hostility
- −50
- Substantially adversarial
- 0
- Mixed or neutral, supported by knowledge
- +50
- Substantially cooperative
- +100
- Exceptionally close sustained partnership
“Not assessed” means there is no recorded score. Pair existence makes no claim about diplomatic recognition or established relations.
Relationship context
Overview
Turkey and Poland have cooperated on defense, notably through Poland’s purchase of Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drones. Both are NATO members, but the concrete bilateral evidence supports a judgment chiefly of practical defense cooperation rather than a broader, deeply integrated partnership.
Key developments
Turkey and Poland concluded an agreement for Poland to purchase 24 Bayraktar TB2 armed drones from Turkey.
Major uncertainties
- The breadth of bilateral cooperation beyond defense procurement is unclear.
- The longer-term scope and implementation of bilateral defense cooperation are unclear.