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  • Turkey rejects restrictions on tanks purchase (March 20)

GDLS M-1A2 Abrams Turkey will not accept any conditions on the use of 1,000 tanks it plans to buy for its armed forces, Defense Minister Sabahattin Cakmakoglu said Monday.
Turkey would not be told when or where it could use the tanks, Anatolia news agency quoted him saying.

Turkey has a tender out for the 1,000 tanks and five companies are bidding for the seven billion dollar project which is expected to be awarded in July.

They are German arms maker Krauss-Maffei Wegmann, General Dynamics of the United States, GIAT of France, Ukrspetseksport from Ukraine, and Iveco and Auto Breda from Italy.

Cakmakoglu is to have talks later Monday with Ukraine Foreign Minister Boris Tarasyuk, who is making his first official visit to Turkey.

On Friday the German foreign ministry said it had received a request for export approval for 1,000 Leopard-2 tanks to Turkey. But the ministry stressed this did not mean a decision had already been taken by Ankara.

Germany's Greens, part of the ruling coalition government, have raised questions about the tank contract and Turkey's human rights record. (Defense and Aerospace)

 

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