Turkey condemns Canada following decision to cease export of drones
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan strongly condemned Canada's decision to stop the export of drone technologies, saying that doing so goes against the spirit of the NATO alliance.
By JERUSALEM POST STAFFTurkish President Tayyip Erdogan, with a picture of Hagia Sophia or Ayasofya in the background, delivers a televised address to the nation in Ankara, Turkey, July 10, 2020(photo credit: TURKISH PRESIDENTIAL PRESS OFFICE/VIA REUTERS)Turkey has condemned Canada's decision to cease exporting drones to the country, Fars News reported.This was announced on October 5, following a report that detailed videos showing imaging and targeting systems produced by a subsidiary of Canadian firm L3Harris Technologies, among others, which were used in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan strongly condemned Canada's decision to stop the export of drone technologies, saying that doing so goes against the spirit of the NATO alliance, of which they are both members.Armenia and Azerbaijan said they had agreed on Saturday to a new humanitarian ceasefire from midnight (20:00 GMT) in fighting over Azerbaijan's ethnic Armenian-controlled enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.Both sides had earlier accused each other of fresh attacks in violation of a week-old Russian-brokered truce that had failed to halt the worst fighting in the South Caucasus since the 1990s.Reuters contributed to this report.
