Abdulllah Bozkurt
Nordic Monitor, Feb. 22, 2022
Since 2016 the Turkish commanders were replaced by Islamists and neo-nationalists bent on undermining the NATO military alliance and pivot Turkey away from the transatlantic alliance and shift its geopolitical direction
More evidence has emerged confirming close military cooperation between the pro-Iranian government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the mullah regime in Iran in providing arms to Islamists in Libya.
According to a report submitted by experts to the UN Security Council, arms manufactured by Iran ended up in Libya with the help of the Turkish government, which is ruled by the Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP), staffed by pro-Iranian figures. The evidence suggests closer cooperation in recent years between the Turkish and Iranian militaries and state-run defense contractors.
Turkish-backed armed factions in the Libyan National Accord (GNA) government received a Dehleyvah anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) system as well as a Misagh-2 man portable air defense system (MANPADS), both of which were manufactured in Iran. In their assessments on March 2021, the Panel of Experts on Libya said it believed it was Turkey that supplied Iranian-made weapons to Libyan factions in clear violation of UN sanctions.
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