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Austrian parliament votes to restrict weapons sales to Turkey
November 25, 2016 by Editorial Staff in Politics
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VIENNA,— The National Council of Austria on Thursday unanimously supported a motion for the government to restrict the sale of arms to Turkey, the Austria Press Agency reported.

All six parties to the council backed the motion, that urged the government to consider the “threat of armed conflicts” as well as the human rights situation when considering approval of such exports.

It additionally specified the treatment by the Erdogan government of journalists, opposition politicians, as well as the Kurdish population in Turkey as grounding for the motion.


“The applicants are thus convinced that under these circumstances no deliveries of war materials, defense goods or dual-use goods for military or police purposes to Turkey may take place from Austria,” it was stated.

The motion did not specifically refer to an “embargo” though its terms still remain open.

Leader of the People’s Party parliamentary group Reinhold Lopatka noted that Austria has not delivered war weapons to Turkey in recent times.

The European Parliament on Thursday voted in favour of a freeze of membership talks with Turkey over its post-coup crackdown, further escalating tensions with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Tens of Kurdish politicians, mayors and parliamentarians from the Turkey’s Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and BDP were detained over links to PKK, including the Kurdish party co-chairs Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag.

More than 10,500 state employees have been dismissed over suspected links with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party PKK militant group, Turkish Labour Minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu said on Thursday.

In September, 24 Kurdish mayors in the southeast suspected of links to the PKK were suspended and replaced with officials close to the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) co-founded by Erdogan, a move that triggered protests in several cities in the region.

The government suspended 11,500 Kurdish teachers suspected of links to the PKK in September 2016.

In September 2016 the Turkish authorities have stopped broadcasts of 10 mostly Kurdish language television channels including the children’s channel Zarok TV.

US, EU, France, Germany and several parties in the European Union legislature have strongly condemned the detention of Kurdish politicians by Turkish authorities over “terrorism-related” investigations.

Since July 2015, Turkey initiated a controversial military campaign against the PKK in the country’s southeastern Kurdish region after Ankara ended a two-year ceasefire agreement. Since the beginning of the campaign, Ankara has imposed several round-the-clock curfews, preventing civilians from fleeing regions where the military operations are being conducted.

Observers say the crackdown has taken a heavy toll on the Kurdish civilian population and accuse Turkey of using collective punishment against the minority.

The PKK took up arms in 1984 against the Turkish state, which still denies the constitutional existence of Kurds, to push for greater autonomy for the Kurdish minority who make up around 22.5 million of the country’s 79-million population.

A large Kurdish community in Turkey and worldwide openly sympathise with PKK rebels and Abdullah Ocalan, who founded the PKK group in 1974, and has a high symbolic value for most Kurds in Turkey and worldwide according to observers.

http://ekurd.net/austrian-weapons-turkey-2016-11-25
 
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I'm really interested in knowing what weapons Turkey imports from Vienna :o:
I think it may be totally unnecessary and useless embargo.
Turkish friend can help me @Sinan @HAKIKAT
 
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Don't know about weapons, but one thing is sure the Turkish folks are losing their appetite to joining EU, which is any way collapsing - it's just a matter of time...
Turkey or any other Muslim country will not be allowed to become a member of EU. Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina are in the centre of Europe, surrounded by EU countries are not the members of EU either...What is common between them and Turkey? religion: Islam
 
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Turkey or any other Muslim country will not be allowed to become a member of EU. Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina are in the centre of Europe, surrounded by EU countries are not the members of EU either...What is common between them and Turkey? religion: Islam

Turkey is a secular state thou, but seems like no matter what the Turks do, Europeans wont accept them. maybe it has something to do with history or insecurity.
 
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Turkey is a secular state thou, but seems like no matter what the Turks do, Europeans wont accept them. maybe it has something to do with history or insecurity.
State is secular but there are a lot of true Muslims too. By becoming EU member, they will have a chance to move freely within Europe and settle with equal rights as Europeans. Furthermore, Erdogan is a religious person and democracy means such people can always rise to the highest post since majority of Turkish people are Muslim and they are not secular.
 
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This is nothing more than a political massage. They know we dont need to buy anything from them for defence.Only ambargo from England, Germany,Italy and Spain meaningfull for Turkey.
From their point of view their decision is right. We are direct competirors of them in many fields and this will increase in the future especially at defence sector,electronic and machinery.
 
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Engine isn't "weapons", so it wouldn't affect any engine sales and even if it did there are alternatives. It's mainly their overrated and overpriced Glock pistols, used by private citizens who can all go for the gazillion alternatives available both Turkish and foreign. Turkey doesn't import any military weapons from Austria.

This is a stupid, political, Islamophobic decision that only hurts Austria's own two-bit economy. It also further goes to show how Austria is overtly supporting coup plotters that killed Turkish civilians in an attempt to violently overthrow the elected government. Turkey should flood these back-stabbing motherfckers with hundreds of thousands of refugees.
 
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Ausrias hatred for Turks is centuries old. Now Austria has shown its true colours. I am not surprised at all
 
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This is too funny. Austria clearly doesn't want Turkey to siege Vienna a 3rd time so they decided to stop selling us Glocks. :woot:
 
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People Austria is a bastard boy who is sent by his bigger sisters to start a fight with Turkiye. You know what I mean.

If Erdogan and akp won't change his policies the others will join in.
 
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