He stressed that the British government "takes its responsibilities for arms export control very seriously."
“And in this case, of course, we will carefully and thoroughly study the issue of our arms exports to Turkey ... New licenses for the export of any weapons that can be used during the military operation in Syria will not be issued until we will conduct this analysis, ”Raaba quotes Sky News.
Earlier, Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Mayo said that Italy plans to stop arms exports to Turkey.
October 9, Ankara announced the start of the ground part of the military operation "Source of Peace" in northeast Syria. Later, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu stated that the Turkish side went on to conduct a military operation because the United States refused to fulfill earlier promises.
US leader Donald Trump signed a decree imposing sanctions against Turkey in connection with this military operation.