All the hypocrisies of Europe on Erdogan’s Turkey
The double game of Europe – and of Italy – with Turkey. Italics by Giuseppe Gagliano
Did a lot of discussion – and it was basically predictable – the incorrectness of Erdogan's diplomatic protocol towards the president – or the president? – of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen.
However, it cannot help but underline that the European Union is exporting a considerable number of weapons to Turkey.
In fact, in 2016 2.3 billion euros worth of arms were sold to Turkey while in 2017 exports increased by half a billion.
Specifically, in 2017 the United Kingdom sold war material to Erdogan for 660 million euros while Italy exported around 360 million euros, making Turkey the third country to which Rome supplies more weapons, after Qatar and Pakistan and surpassing Germany with 243 million euros and eight times higher than the French one.
Furthermore, the European Union paid Turkey handsomely to avoid having a real invasion of immigrants .
As for the reaction of the Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, who defined the Turkish premier a dictator – following which Turkey summoned the Italian ambassador Massimo Gaiani – this was certainly unusual but in a certain sense in line. with the posture that the current president of the United States is assuming towards China and Russia ( the American president had defined Putin a killer as readers will remember).
But even here one cannot help but observe the evident inconsistency of this stance on the part of Italy, especially if we consider that our country is an excellent exporter of arms precisely to the country of the dictator .
In this regard – and using logic – we must assume that democratic Italy by exporting arms will strengthen a de facto dictatorial system. And what about Egypt with which there are excellent relations both in the arms industry and in the oil industry?
In reality, democratic countries resemble that husband who on Saturday evening attends women of ill repute while on Sunday morning he goes with his family to Sunday mass.
Italian weapons to Turkey: facts, names and hypocrisies
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/tutte-le-ipocrisie-delleuropa-sulla-turchia-di-erdogan/ on Fri, 09 Apr 2021 07:47:37 +0000.