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Article: TURKEY'S MID EAST ARMS TIES.
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- The Middle East
- Article date:
- February 1, 1998
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Turkish officials are keen to speak of the centuries old ties with their Middle East neighbours, but less keen on talking about the new multi-million dollar arms trade that link the regions
Turkey's old Ottoman Empire at one time extended through Iraq and Iran, southward through the Arabian peninsula to Yemen and south-west into North Africa. Modern-day Turkey still feels the sometimes uncomfortable tensions between its secularist and Islamic influences. One of the less obvious areas where this shows is in its arms ties with Middle East states, which currently account for about half of Turkey's $200 million annual arms exports -- an amount set to increase both in ...