Turkey violated embargo on arms supplies to Libya

The report added, "Turkey carried out at least eleven sorties to Libya with military aircraft" A400M ". The German-French TV station (ARTE), Spain's" El Diario "and the Dutch investigation center" Lighthouse Reports "also participated in this investigation within the framework of the "îEUArms" project.

A spokesperson for "Airbus" company in Munich, Germany, said that Turkey, a member of NATO, was one of the founding countries of the "A400M" program in 2003, along with Germany, France and other countries in the European Union.

The spokesman said that Turkey has so far obtained nine of this model, and is close to receiving the tenth, adding that all deliveries are legal. The spokesman indicated that maintenance of the aircraft is being carried out in the Turkish city of Kayseri and providing them with spare parts, explaining that "Airbus" is not responsible for the materials that one country transfers to another on its aircraft.

"It is important that we adapt the relevant foreign trade laws accordingly, in order to avoid something like this in the future," said "ARD" and "Stern", according to the defense expert in the German Social Democratic Party, Harl-Heinz Brunner, as saying.

An expert on arms affairs in the Green Party, Tobias Lindenber, asked to reveal the circumstances of what the reports talked about, and said: "It is unacceptable for a European company to help Turkey break the arms embargo imposed on Libya." The parliamentarian for the "Left" party, Sevim Dadlin, demanded that Germany ends European cooperation in armament projects.

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