Germany transfers $265 mln in weapons to Turkey this year

[ozgurluk at xs4all.nl]

Aug. 14 1998

Germany transfers $265 mln in weapons to Turkey this year 

     The German government statement also indicates that a cargo ship
     used by the German military was sold to Turkey as surplus
     equipment

Ankara - Turkish Daily News 

Germany reportedly sold DM 449.2 million (approximately $265 million)
worth of weapons and military equipment to Turkey in the first half of
1998, the Anatolia news agency reported from Bonn.

The number was derived from a response by the German government to a
questionnaire submitted by the Green Alliance 90, a united opposition
movement, on the transfer of weapons to some countries in recent
years.

According to the German government's statement, the value of weapons
and military equipment delivered to Turkey by year is as follows: DM
619.3 million in 1994; DM 177.9 million in 1995; DM 600.8 million in
1996; DM 145 million in 1997; and DM 449.2 million in the first half
of 1998.

The government statement also said that a cargo ship used by the
German military had been sold to Turkey as surplus equipment. Both
Germany and Turkey are NATO members.

The federal government additionally said that Germany had also
transferred weapons to Greece, another NATO member, worth DM 30.7
million in the first half of this year.


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