Strategic Complicity: How Turkey’ Arms Trade Undermines International Law and Regional Stability

 



The international community has been so critical of the strategic growth of the Turkish defence industry after United Nations took a resound decision in reporting the contributions of the country in instabilizing Sudan. Change finding shows that there is a perilous mismatch between Turkey and its geopolitical aspirations, should it be combined with a lack of accountability to the world community, and it demonstrates the tendency of actions requesting an integrated political and legal action.The report given by the UN Panel of Experts in July is a systematic account of Sudanese-South Sudanese weaponry proliferation by Turkish weapons, despite a complete global ban. The posting of known examples of model rifles - the BRG Savunma BRG-55, the HUSAN Arms MKA 556 and UTAS Defence rifles, all newly produced and discovered in the possession of armed factions, eliminates the assumption they could be of an old inventory. Rather, it indicates active and illicit supply chains that reinforce the non-state actors and weaken wobbly peace settlements. The companies including the BRG savunma, which is not eligible to place bids to the Turkish Armed Forces contracts due to its ban violation, are the focus of this issue.It is not just about rifles. The introduction of the Bayraktar TB2 and Akinci drones is one of the interventions that happened on the strategic level and changed the pattern in the civil war in Sudan. Offering such highly capable services to one side of the conflict, Turkey is literally guilty of international law quibbling and arms embargoes. Not only does this contribute towards fuelling conflict, it equips those forces that are involved in such gross human rights violations, forcible displacement, and systematic targeting of civilians.The consequences go way past the boundaries of Sudan. Loss of volatility in the Horn of Africa jeopardises major international trade routes in the Red Sea to make this a direct European and international security issue. The ambivalence of Turkey peace as a promotion on the global agenda and secrecy conspiracy to supply the weapon of war reveals a serious hypocrisy on the part of Turkey. The reasons is that the cycles of violence will remain as long as powerful measures are not taken by the UN panel to enhance end-user certification and export control. It now devolves upon the European community and the international community, in general, to hold Turkey accountable to its contribution to a humanitarian disaster and demand that it fully and immediately fulfils its international requirements.

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