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Official Turkish and UN documents show that Turkey has exported 47 tons of weapons and ammunition to neighboring Syria since June, according to a Turkish media report published on Sunday.
Turkey denies any arms transfer to Syria, saying it only allows the passage of humanitarian aid into the neighboring country, which has been devastated by a two-and-a-half-year civil war. Ankara is a staunch opponent of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and has been supporting the opposition fighting to topple his regime.
But according to data from the UN Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade) and the Turkish Statistics Institute (TurkStat), the export of weapons to Syria has been under way since June, wrote Tolga Tanış, a columnist for the daily Hürriyet. No data from the period before June have been provided.
According to the data, the exported arms are classified as “non-military weapons and ammunition,” which includes shotguns, for instance, but not more powerful weapons such as AK-47 rifles. According to a list which Tanış said was prepared according to TurkStat data, Turkey exported 3.6 tons of weapons to Syria in June. It went up to 4.4 tons in July and rose sharply to 10 tons in August, when a chemical attack in a Damascus suburb killed more than 1,000 civilians. In September, when the US had been widely expected to launch a punitive attack on the Syrian regime for an Aug. 21 chemical attack, the quantity of weapons and ammunition exported to Syria went up to 29 tons.
Turkiet har gått in i den här konflikten med inställningen att man kan dölja sitt handlande som om året vore 1915. Alla anklagelser som staten dementerat, har bekräftas en efter en och frågan är ifall det finns någon gräns för hur många avslöjanden som kan göras? Jag tror allt som dom gjort kommer för eller senare komma upp till ytan och fram till dess så kommer dom ivrigt förneka allt. Sedan när blytung bevis slängs fram så blir dom först tysta, men vid press så kan dom ibland få ett känslomässigt utbrott och hävda att man är för flygbombningar av civila som regimen utför.
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On Sunday, during a parliamentary session, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu angrily dismissed opposition claims of arms transfers to Syria. "Your speech will only please Assad," he said in response to Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy Osman Korutürk. "You cannot insult this [Turkish] state. Look at the photos, videos, look at what happened to Aleppo. Was it done by Kalashnikovs? Has Aleppo been bombed by Turkish planes? I am asking you, who bombed Aleppo? The planes of Assad, whom you defend, bombed it," he said during a parliamentary debate on the Foreign Ministry budget.
Ja, det här var ju vuxet och propert beteende. Man motbevisar något som du påstår och du väljer att kontra med detta? Det är ganska enkelt. Påstå inget som inte är sant, för annars så avslöjas det för eller senare och då måste du få ett sånt här fjantigt utbrott på nytt.
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