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The Grand Turk
Why a US defence bill seeks a halt to arms sales to Turkey
2018-05-09
[Al Jazeera] A draft bill on US military spending is calling for a temporary halt of American weapons sales to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
, a key Middle East ally of Washington.

Clauses on Turkey in the annual defence policy bill - released by members of the House of Representatives on Monday - are the latest strain in already-sour relations between the two NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants...
allies.

The full text of the draft calls for a temporary arms sales ban against Turkey until the secretary of defence submits a report on the worsening US-Turkey relations to related House committees.

The $717bn military bill "prohibits any action to execute delivery of major military equipment to Turkey until the required report is delivered to the specified congressional committees".

The proposed US National Defense Authorisation Act must go through various steps before becoming law.

Mevlut Cavusoglu, Turkey's foreign minister, recently told Ottoman Turkish media the section on arms sales to Turkey in the bill were "wrong, illogical and not suitable" in relations between NATO allies, stressing Ankara would retaliate if the measures are enacted.

"If the US imposes sanctions on us or takes a similar step, Turkey will absolutely retaliate. But we would not want to do that," Cavusoglu said.

Mensur Akgun, chair of the international relations department at Istanbul Kultur University, said the move would not affect Turkey's power to acquire weapons it needs, but would bring a new crisis in bilateral ties.

"Turkey has been producing its own weapons more and more as time goes by. Other high-technology weapons that cannot be produced in Turkey can be supplied by other countries. And Turkey is gradually increasing its weapon purchases from Russia," Akgun told Al Jazeera from Istanbul.

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