After weapons, Turkey sends combat vehicles to Libya despite the international ban

Turkey breached a UN Security Council resolution banning the sale and transfer of arms to Libya. The Libyan customs authorities seized a shipment of arms and combat vehicles in al-Khoms port, west of Libya, of Turkish origin.

After weapons, Turkey sends combat vehicles to Libya despite the international ban
7 February, 2019   07:32

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The Libyan customs said they had seized combat vehicles and four-wheel-drive vehicles from Turkey and that the shipment consisted of nine Toyota-Sierralion armored attack vehicles with Turkish-made combat vehicles, which arrived to al-Khoms port coming from a Turkish port.

The Customs Department seized in al-Khoms port in last November two shipments of Turkish arms and ammunition, including 3,000 9-mm pistols, 120 pistols, 400 hunting rifles and 4 million pistol rounds.

It was not the first time that weapons and explosives had been seized coming from Turkey to Libya, where in January 2018, the Greek Guard seized a ship was carried explosives, it was described as a "mobile bomb"

Before that, Greece revealed in January that it had found Turkish weapons on a ship heading to Libya after stopping in Greece due to bad weather.

Since the start of the so-called Arab Spring, the AKP authorities have been supplying arms and ammunition to terrorist gangs in the region. Turkey has also opened its airports to terrorists from around the world and transported them to Syria, Iraq and other Arab countries to fight there. As it is considered the third time for Ankara to ban the International Security Council and ban the sale and transfer of arms to Libya in less than two months.

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ANHA