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SWP Berlin says Turkey's Africa arms exports complicate EU defence ties

SWP Berlin's Nebahat Tanriverdi Yasar and Baris Alp Ozden warn Turkey's growing defence exports to Africa complicate EU-Turkey industrial cooperation, urging Germany and the EU to set supply-chain and export-control safeguards.

Verified Opinion AI-drafted SWP Berlin publication, 14 September 2026

What the source does not establish. This is the authors' policy analysis and does not itself change any EU-Turkey defence agreement or export rule.

Index score. No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0. No question moves; a paper arguing for EU-level defence export and supply-chain safeguards. European Sovereignty Index

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