Germany sells 216 million euros of military equipment to Turkey

Turkey is Germany’s third best non-EU customer, coming in after China and Russia.

The German government announced that the country sold 216 million euros worth of military equipment to Turkey last year.

Germany sells military equipment for both civilian and military use, in what they call “dual use”.

Germany’s Economy Ministry sent a document to the Federal Parliament’s Economy Commission that announced how much of the equipment made up mostly of electronics, informatics technology and chemicals was sold to Turkey and other non-EU countries.

Newspapers in the Editorial Network Germany (RedaktionsNetzwerks Deutschland) published an article on Friday that said Turkey was sold 216 million euros worth of military equipment dubbed “dual use”. The Merkel-led government announced that a total of 374 sales tenders were approved for Turkey.

Turkey is Germany’s third best non-EU customer, coming in after China and Russia.

Germany sold 2.2 billion Euros worth of “dual use” military equipment to China, and 270 million Euros to Russia. A total of 9083 sales tenders were approved for the “third countries”, with a worth of 4.0 billion euros.

The Economy Ministry’s document includes information on sales of military equioment to Saudi Arabia, which has been under a weapons sales embargo since last year. The German government violated the embargo they were forced to set by public pressure and sold 194 counts of military equipment to Saudi Arabia, worth 25 million Euros.