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<<<*German Greens* party *defence expert* Angelika Beer also
denied that the government's decision to authorise
*delivery of weapons* fuses to Turkey indicates a
general relaxing of the current policy.>>>
Irony, or better yet, hypocrisy, is never hard to come by in NATO
land...
On 8 Aug 01, at 1:14, Rick Rozoff wrote:
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> Frankfurter Rundschau
> August 7, 2001
>
> Turkey is the leading recipient of German weapons and
> arms-productions facilities. According to the
> government's report, in 1999 Turkey received about 855
> billion dollars worth of exported German weapons. The
> United States, Italy, Israel and the United Arab
> Emirates came in second through fifth. According to
> 1999's statistics, the German armaments industry
> exported 2.65 billion dollars worth of weapons. In
> that year Berlin approved 9,373 export applications
> while turning down 85.
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> GERMANY APPROVES WEAPONS DELIVERY TO TURKEY
>
> Fuse sale to Ankara no sign of arms-policy change,
> says Berlin
>
> By Thomas Kroeter
>
> Berlin - Germany's government plans to continue
> following its current arms-export policy with Turkey,
> a Berlin Economics Ministry representative told the
> Frankfurter Rundschau.
>
> German Greens party defence expert Angelika Beer also
> denied that the government's decision to authorise
> delivery of weapons fuses to Turkey indicates a
> general relaxing of the current policy.
>
> The Bundessicherheitsrat or Federal Security Council
> (BSR) authorised the Nuremberg-based arms-maker Diehl
> to export weapons fuses to Turkey, a fellow NATO
> member, Berlin government circles unofficially
> confirmed Sunday. The government never comments
> officially on decisions of the secret organisation.
>
> The request to authorise the fuse deliveries was made
> during the administration of former German Chancellor
> Helmut Kohl. Last spring, when the Social
> Democratic-Greens government that followed Kohl into
> office in 1998, had yet to issue a decision, Diehl
> took the case to court.
>
> Berlin law-experts reportedly came to the conclusion
> that blocking the delivery would be legally
> impossible. Once that decision had been reached, the
> BSR - which includes the Chancellor's Office, the
> Foreign, Defence, Economics and Development Ministries
> - approved it.
>
> After getting approval for the deliveries from Berlin,
> according to a report in the Frankurter Allgemeine
> Sonntagszeitung, Diehl dropped its lawsuit - but the
> company still lost the contract. The delay had taken
> so long that a competitor got the job. But according
> to the Sunday newspaper, German arms-makers are taking
> the decision as an "important signal." The decision,
> word in weapons-making circles in Germany has it,
> indicates a general relaxing of standards in favour of
> the weapons industry regarding export policies.
>
> Greens defence-policy expert Beer calls that view
> total rubbish that, at best, represents nothing but
> wishful thinking on the part of arms-makers.
>
> The German government, Beer said, will continue its
> previous, restrictive policies, policies that require
> the human-rights records of countries wanting to buy
> weapons to be taken into account when making the the
> decision. That in fact is the very reason why requests
> to export weapons to Turkey need to be so carefully
> considered, said Beer.
>
> Turkey is the leading recipient of German weapons and
> arms-productions facilities. According to the
> government's report, in 1999 Turkey received about 855
> billion dollars worth of exported German weapons. The
> United States, Italy, Israel and the United Arab
> Emirates came in second through fifth. According to
> 1999's statistics, the German armaments industry
> exported 2.65 billion dollars worth of weapons. In
> that year, Berlin approved 9,373 export applications
> while turning down 85.
>
> Whether the long-ongoing, most-disputed deal with
> Ankara ever becomes reality, is still an open
> question. Turkey's army is still evaluating a variety
> of battle tanks, including the German Leopard II.
> Plans to export a sample tank trigerred a hot dispute
> within the German coalition governent recently.
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