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The Grand Turk

Turkey says claim of ‘agressive’ behaviour by Turkish navy towards French warship completely untrue

2020-06-18

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

NEW — Turkey says claim of “agressive” behaviour by Turkish navy towards French warship completely untrue:

• Turkish navy had fuelled French warship before the alleged incident
• French warship didn’t establish comms with the Turkish ship

— Turkish officials to Reuters
— Ragıp Soylu (@ragipsoylu) June 17, 2020

Posted by:Fred

#1 France's defence ministry told Reuters on Wednesday that the French warship had wanted to check whether Turkish vessel Cirkin was smuggling arms to Libya, forbidden under a UN embargo. In response, French officials said the Cirkin had switched off its tracking system, masked its ID number, and refused to say where it was going.

Posted by: b 2020-06-18 07:33

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