Turkey has denied exporting technology products with military applications to Russia in the face of increasing US pressure for Ankara to curtail its ties to Moscow.
Turkish foreign minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said at a press conference in Ankara alongside US secretary of state Antony Blinken that it was “not true that products such as electronics . . . used in the defence industry are exported by us to Russia”.
The remarks came just weeks after a senior US Treasury official travelled to Turkey to urge businesses there to avoid transacting with Russian companies subject to sanctions and not to sell products that can be used in Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine.