It’s a tradition that goes clean back to Sultan Mehmed II’s hiring of a late-medieval private military contractor, Orban of Hungary. That fine tradition goes back before even the 19th century, when the Ottomans were such a large customer of Mauser Werke that the Germans built an onion-domed residence in Oberndorf to help the Turkish delegation feel at home. Neither is bringing in outside designs a new thing for the Turkish firearms industry, either. It goes back farther than the nation of Turkey itself, to the early 15th century when the army of the nascent Ottoman Empire was one of the first in that corner of the world to make organized, systematic, and extensive use of gunpowder artillery. Keep in mind that the Turkish firearms industry goes back a rather long way.
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