Germany Rejects Greece’s Demand for a Ban on Weapon Sales to Turkey
December 22, 2020
Turkish vessel the Oruc Reis is escorted into Greek waters by five Turkish Navy vessels on Monday, August 10. Photo: Turkish Defense Ministry
The German foreign minister on Monday expressed his country’s opposition to Greece’s demand to impose an arms embargo on Turkey.
Speaking to the Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa), Heiko Maas said: “I do not find the demand of an arms embargo against Turkey strategically correct. It is not easy to do this against a NATO partner. We saw that NATO ally Turkey easily bought missiles from Russia because it could not buy from the U.S.”