 Rooters summarized: PM Erdogan announced action to reporters in New York City late on Friday after the meeting of the UN General Assembly. No word on whether the ship actually was carrying arms.
Turkish authorities in August intercepted an arms shipment from Iran to Syria. In March, Turkey told a UN Security Council panel it seized a cache of weapons Iran was attempting to export in breach of a UN arms embargo.
Bilateral trade between Turkey and Syria was $2.5 billion in 2010, up from $500 million in 2004. Investments of Turkish firms in Syria reached $260 million, Turkish data show. Turkey has been Syria's main trading partner.
He's a busy man. In the same press conference, PM Erdogan announced the U.S. has agreed in principle to provide Turkey with drones, which will be used to hunt the PKK in northern Iraq. |