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some 4mn Syrians​that have fled the civil war in their country, rather than allowing them to move on to Europe.
Leader of the recently founded opposition party DEVA and former Erdogan ally and economy czar, Ali Babacan, ​said​Erdogan’s call to boycott French goods was “childish” and “propaganda”, adding: “I guess it will occupy the agenda for 48 hours and then everyone will forget it.”
“There is a menu that remains in the hand and whenever the agenda gets weaker, they [the Erdogan administration] look at that menu immediately, and they come up with the motto ‘Let this be the current agenda’”, he added.
Turkish newspaper Dunya r​eported​that the Saudi government contacted individual businesses and ordered them not to trade with Turkish companies​or buy any products made in Turkey.
“The Turkish military presence in the Arab Gulf is an emergency,” Anwar Gargash, the UAE’s state minister for foreign affairs, ​said​on Twitter on October 10, saying it was an element of instability in the region and contributed to negative polarisation.
Saudi Arabia has “banned all imports for made in Turkey products”, an employee at clothing group Mango told Turkish suppliers in an email ​seen​by Financial Times.
Saudi retail giant Abdullah Al-Othaim Markets Co ​stopped​importing Turkish products.
A campaign will be launched to boycott Turkish products in Libya in November “in response to the blatant Turkish interference in the country's affairs and its support for militias”, Ibrahim al-Jarari, head of the Libyan-Egyptian Joint Economic Chamber, was ​quoted​as saying by Al-Monitor on October 26.
It t​ook​just minutes for the third attempt at a humanitarian ceasefire in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to fray on October 26, ​with Armenia and Azerbaijan accusing each other of violating the truce brokered in Washington. On October 28, there ​was​no real sign of respect for the US-brokered ceasefire.
Ankara has been ​accused​of carrying j​ihadists​from northern Syria to Azerbaijan.
Baku has ​modernised​its armed forces in recent years with weapons largely bought from Russia, but with significant buys from Turkey and Israel.
Turkey’s military exports to its ally Azerbaijan have r​isen​six-fold this year.
Canadian Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne ​said​on October 5 that Canada had taken the decision to suspend the export of the drone technology to Turkey while it investigated whether it was used by forces of Ankara’s close ally Azerbaijan.
The spirit of alliance has been breached by Canada’s suspension of drone technology exports to Turkey due to concerns that the products could be playing a role in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan t​old​Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau.
Turkey ‘is ​hit​hard by climate change’.​
Turkey is among 19 countries with “little to no enforcement against companies bribing abroad”,​according to the Exporting Corruption 2020 report​by Transparency International.
8​ TURKEY Country Report​ November 2020 ​ ​www.intellinews.com