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Despite the embargo imposed by the West on the export of goods to Russia due to the war in Ukraine, Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Turkey, despite NATO, continues to export to Russia materials that are "vital to the Russian war machine", it is written in a article from the Financial Times.
In fact, according to FT correspondents in Ankara and London, these Turkish exports "increased significantly" this year, causing growing concern among NATO allies about the role Turkey itself is now playing in the background. of the war in Ukraine.
"Turkish exports to Russia of goods vital to Moscow's war machine have soared this year, undermining US and European efforts to limit Moscow's ability to arm its armed forces," writes the FT, even underlining that these increased Russian-Turkish transactions could "inflame tensions between Ankara and its NATO partners."
Brian Nelson, the US Treasury's undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, will visit Istanbul and Ankara this week, where he will discuss "efforts to prevent, disrupt and investigate commercial and economic activities that benefit Russian efforts in the war against Ukraine." FT correspondents write, noting even that this is Nelson's second trip to Turkey this year.
The problem mainly concerns dual-use parts that are allegedly exported to Russia via Turkey, bypassing Western sanctions.
The European Union, for example, has imposed stricter and more extensive controls on the export of dual-use (military and civilian) goods and services. According to what the Commission states on its website, the aim is to limit Russia's access to technologies and items such as: drones and drone software, binoculars, software for encryption devices, semiconductors, drone engines, chemicals that can be used to make chemical weapons, components that can be used in weapons systems, thermal/thermographic cameras, jet fuels and fuel additives, rare earths, radio navigation equipment, telecommunications equipment, etc.
However, in the first nine months of 2023 alone, Turkey's exports of such goods to Russia and five other countries of the former Soviet bloc (Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan), suspected of acting as brokers to Moscow, reached 158 million million, as reported by the FT. The amount of 158 million dollars, according to the FT, is three times the equivalent that was recorded in the first nine months of 2022, while at the same time in 2023, imports of these goods from Turkey have also increased significantly.
In other words, there are now suspicions that Turkey now imports much larger quantities of dual-use items, which nevertheless end up in Russia either through Turkey or through intermediate stations in Turkey and other countries, bypassing Western Sanctions .
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