British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, left, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan shake hands after signing a deal worth up to '8 billion for 20 UK Typhoon fighter jets, the biggest fighter jet exports deal in a generation, at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, Oct. 27, 2025.Keir Starmer proudly touted his new lucrative deal with Turkey on Monday, promising it would bring thousands of jobs to the UK.Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan agreed to a new £8 billion deal to buy 20 Typhoon jets from Britain in what the UK prime minister described as a “win for British workers, a win for our defence industry and a win for Nato security”.But there have been fears about Turkey’s increasingly authoritarian administration, especially as Erdoğan’s main political opposition –