Canada on Monday said it had dropped export controls to Turkey for certain types of weapons.
Canada has decided to ease restrictions towards Ankara © Mena Today
Canada on Monday said it had dropped export controls to Turkey for certain types of weapons, including drone optical technology, according to a notice posted online, saying that from now on it would review all exports on a case-by-case basis.
Canada suspended drone technology sales to Turkey, a fellow member of NATO, in 2020 after concluding its optical equipment attached to Turkish-made drones had been used by Azerbaijan while fighting ethnic Armenian forces in Nagorno Karabakh, an enclave Baku has since retaken.
Turkey's MIT intelligence agency chief met Hamas' negotiating team head Khalil Al-Hayya on Wednesday and they discussed the path to be followed in implementing the next phases of the Gaza ceasefire plan, Turkish security sources said.
Turkish nationalist leader Devlet Bahceli, who is President Tayyip Erdogan's main parliamentary ally, said on Tuesday that it "would be beneficial" to release from prison the former pro-Kurdish party leader Selahattin Demirtas.
Countries are still working on a U.N. Security Council mandate for an international stabilisation force in Gaza, and will decide on any troop deployments once a framework is complete, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Monday.
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