Canada’s decision to droop exports of some navy expertise over allegations the tools was utilized by Azeri forces within the Nagorno-Karabakh battle reveals a double customary, Turkey’s overseas ministry stated on Tuesday.
“Turkey expects Canada to observe a coverage freed from double requirements and to behave with out being influenced from these against Turkey,” the ministry stated in an announcement.
“There isn’t any clarification of blocking defence tools exports to a NATO ally whereas … Canada doesn’t see any hurt in exporting arms to international locations which have navy involvement within the disaster in Yemen,” it stated.
Turkey fastidiously sticks to its obligations underneath its complete export-control regime, the ministry added.
Overseas Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne stated on Monday Canada suspended the export of some drone expertise to Turkey whereas it investigates whether or not it was utilized by Azeri forces in additional than per week of fierce clashes with Armenia.
Turkey has up to now equipped drones to Azerbaijan and has repeated it stands firmly beside its shut ally within the battle over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh area.
Canadian arms management group Venture Ploughshares says video of air strikes launched by Baku signifies the drones had been geared up with imaging and concentrating on programs made by L3Harris Wescam, the Canada-based unit of L3Harris Applied sciences Inc.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have accused one another of attacking civilian areas and a whole bunch of individuals have been killed within the deadliest clashes within the area for greater than 25 years. NATO has urged an instantaneous ceasefire.
(Reporting by Ezgi Erkoyun; Enhancing by Jonathan Spicer)