{"id":134770,"date":"2024-10-21T09:05:57","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T06:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/scholz-defends-arms-sales-to-turkey-after-erdogan-talks\/"},"modified":"2024-10-21T09:05:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T06:05:57","slug":"scholz-defends-arms-sales-to-turkey-after-erdogan-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/scholz-defends-arms-sales-to-turkey-after-erdogan-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholz defends arms sales to Turkey after Erdogan talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134770\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nGerman Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday defended a large increase in defense exports to Turkey, citing both countries&#8217; membership of the NATO alliance as one reason. The chancellor made the comments in Istanbul, after talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. &#8220;Turkey is a member of NATO and that is why we always make decisions that there will be concrete deliveries. That is a matter of course,&#8221; Scholz told a joint news conference, following the two leaders&#8217; meeting.<\/p>\n<p>From single-digit figures a few years ago, Germany has approved more than a \u20ac100 million ($108.7 million) in military exports to Turkey so far this year. Addressing reporters, Erdogan thanked Scholz for his efforts to lift German restrictions on defense sales to Turkey, notably Ankara&#8217;s desire to buy 40 Eurofighter Typhoons.<\/p>\n<p>Scholz appeared open to the potential delivery of the combat jets, saying talks between the United Kingdom and Turkey are ongoing. The issue is something &#8220;that will develop further, but is now being driven forward from there,&#8221; the chancellor said. The Eurofighter Typhoons are built by a four-nation consortium grouping Germany, Britain, Spain and Italy. Last year, Ankara said it was keen to acquire Eurofighter jets but the talks failed to progress, largely because of Berlin&#8217;s opposition to Turkey&#8217;s stance on the Gaza conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan is a fierce critic of Israel&#8217;s military campaign in Gaza and Lebanon, while Berlin has defended Israel&#8217;s right to self-defense, which both leaders reiterated during their news conference. &#8220;We expect all political actors to take the initiative and put a stop to Israel&#8217;s aggressive policies,&#8221; Erdogan said, denouncing &#8220;the genocide carried out by Israel in the Palestinian territories and the attacks in Lebanon.&#8221; Scholz, meanwhile, said Germany, &#8220;does not consider&#8230; that the accusation of genocide is legitimate and justified,&#8221; and then called for a cease-fire and the release of hostages held by Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey was a large importer of German arms, but export permits were cut significantly by Berlin following a failed coup against Erdogan&#8217;s rule and a crackdown on the opposition along with the Turkish military&#8217;s ground offensive in northern Syria in 2016. Having rebounded over several years, the German government has approved \u20ac103 million ($112 million) in military exports to Turkey so far this year, according to official data. The exports are the most since 2011 and include the delivery of 28 torpedoes and 101 guided missiles, the government said in response to a parliamentary question from the left-wing populist Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW).<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/scholz-defends-arms-sales-to-turkey-after-erdogan-talks\/a-70542768\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/scholz-defends-arms-sales-to-turkey-after-erdogan-talks\/a-70542768\">DW<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/scholz-defends-arms-sales-to-turkey-after-erdogan-talks\/\">Scholz defends arms sales to Turkey after Erdogan talks<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[16574,16575,16576,2481,2879,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-134770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-arms-sales","tag-defends","tag-erdogan-talks","tag-scholz","tag-turkey","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}