Turkey sold weapons to Israel in the midst of the ongoing war: Govt data
Recep Tayyip Erdogan led Turkey continued weapons sale and export to Israel in the midst of the far right Zionist regime’s ongoing brutal war against the Palestinians in Gaza, West Bank and other occupied territories, the official government data said. Read More
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Ankara: Recep Tayyip Erdogan led Turkey continued weapons sale and export to Israel in the midst of the far right Zionist regime’s ongoing brutal war against the Palestinians in Gaza, West Bank and other occupied territories, the official government data said.
The continued arms export to Israel has sparked outrage and a number of Turkish Parliamentarians have urged the Erdogan government to revise its policy of aiding the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank.
Weapons Export from Turkey to Israel
According to the data released by the state-run Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) a huge cache of weapons were exported to Israel after October 07, 2023 when Israel launched its military offensive in Gaza following the Operation Al Aqsa Flood.
Arms trade worth approximately $80,000 (2.4M Turkish liras) was carried out in November 2023 and that continued till January 2024, Turkish language news outlet 10 Haber said in a report citing the TÜİK data.
"From November 2023 to January 2024, exports to Israel within the scope of Chapter 93 totalled $903,000, and exports in November were $80,000”, the TÜİK stated.
Snapshots of TÜİK data shared by local journalists on social media showed weapons exported from Turkey to Israel as of January 2024 included gunpowder, explosives, flammable substances, ammunition, weapons and other military parts.
According to an official trade report, Turkey sold arms to Israel in January of this year (i.e. during Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza).
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'Arms embargo against Israel a legal requirement'
Earlier, 15 opposition members of the Turkish Parliament joined more than 200 legislators from 13 countries in expressing their opposition to the export of arms to Israel for its ongoing war on the Palestinian enclave of Gaza.
In a joint letter posted on the website of Progressive International, the lawmakers said an arms embargo against Israel had moved beyond a moral necessity to become a legal requirement following an interim ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the Genocide Convention against Israel.
“We will not be complicit in Israel’s grave violation of international law. The ICJ ordered Israel not to kill, harm or ‘deliberately [inflict] on the [Palestinians] conditions of life calculated to bring about … physical destruction’,” the parliamentarians said.
“Today, we take a stand. We will take immediate and coordinated action in our respective legislatures to stop our countries from arming Israel,” the Turkish lawmakers said joinging over 200 legislators from 13 countries to oppose the export of arms to Israel for its ongoing war on the Palestinian enclave of Gaza.
'For sports, not warfare'
Soon after the leaked government data exposed Erdogan’s hypocrisy, the government launched a damage control exercise and said the weapons exported to Israel from Turkey were for sports and for warfare.
"The "goods" sold to Israel were not weapons but weapon parts that were used for “hunting and sports purposes", and not for warfare", the government-run Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) said in a statement to 10 Haber.
Turkey was the first Muslim nation to recognise Israel and have bilateral ties with the Jewish state. Bilateral ties between the two countries were normalised in 1949 that later grew to the level of cultural, trade, and even defence.
Turkish President Erdogan was also the first Muslim leader to visit the grave of Zionism founder Theodor Herzl in Israel.
Latest from Gaza
Meanwhile, the Israeli Occupation Forces are continuing bombing of Gaza despite the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in a binding resolution called for immediate ceasefire to honour the Muslim Holy Month of Fasting Ramadan.
Report of the Zionist forces targeting those seeking aid is also coming from different parts of the besieged enclave.
At least 32,414 Palestinians have been killed and 74,787 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7.
Close to 1.4 million Palestinians are starving and facing acute shortage of drinking water, food and other essentials in Gaza, according to UN agencies that accused Israel of using starvation as weapon.
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