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Turkey’s foreign minister will travel to Azerbaijan, a close ally of Turkey, today to speak with Azeri officials about clashes in Nagorno-Karabakh between the Baku army and Armenian separatists, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a release.
Mevlüt Çavuşoλουlu will make “a working visit” during which he will meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and speak with his counterpart “about the situation in the Armenian-occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region,” the statement said.
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry also said today that Canada’s decision to suspend exports of military technology to Ankara on allegations that Azerbaijani forces were using equipment in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict shows two meters and two pesos.
“Turkey expects Canada to pursue a policy without two measures and two pesos and to act without being influenced by those who oppose Turkey,” the ministry said in a statement.
“There is no explanation for blocking the export of defense equipment to a NATO ally, while … Canada sees no problem in exporting weapons to countries that are militarily involved in the Yemen crisis,” he added.
Canadian Foreign Minister François-Philippe Champagne announced on Monday that Canada suspended the export to Turkey of certain drone technology while investigating whether it was used by Azeri forces in the violent clashes that have been going on for a week.
In the past, Turkey has supplied drones to Azerbaijan and has reiterated that it remains firmly on the side of its close ally in the conflict over the secessionist Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Canadian arms control organization Project Plowshares says video images of airstrikes launched from Baku show drones equipped with target and image capture systems manufactured by L3Harris Wescam, a division of Canada-based L3Harris Technologies Inc. .
Source: ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ
