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Turkey on Monday signed a brand new navy settlement with Hungary that features intelligence sharing, joint workouts, coaching, and protection trade and logistics cooperation, Nordic Monitor has discovered.
The settlement, finalized throughout the official go to of Hungarian Protection Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky, can be a sign of recent purchases within the coming months.
In a press release to the press after the signing ceremony, Turkish Protection Minister Hulusi Akar advised reporters that the 2 ministers had labored throughout the framework of the optimistic relations between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. “We’ve observed that we’ve got comparable views on many points, and I imagine our relationships will progress a lot additional within the coming interval,” Akar mentioned.
Visiting Minister Szalay-Bobrovniczky additionally famous that they’ve been aiming to furnish the Hungarian military with tools suitable with NATO since 2017 and that they belief the Turkish protection trade on this regard.
Szalay-Bobrovniczky mentioned 10 Ejder Yalçın armored automobiles produced by Turkey have been delivered to this point and that they’ll quickly take possession of 40 extra of them.
Turkish Ejder Yalçın is a 4×4 armored fight car developed to fulfill the operational necessities of navy items and safety forces in each rural and concrete areas. Hungary can be working to to buy navy drones from Turkey. The Hungarian media final yr reported that the KARAYEL-SU drone developed by Turkey’s Vestel was put into take a look at research by the Hungarian armed forces.
Turkish Protection Minister Akar and his Hungarian counterpart Szalay-Bobrovniczky on Tuesday inaugurated the Hungarian Gallipoli Monument, which was inbuilt reminiscence of Hungarian troopers who misplaced their lives preventing alongside Turkish troopers within the Dardanelles Wars.
Nordic Monitor beforehand reported that Turkey and Hungary agreed to maintain protection contracts beneath a heavier shroud of secrecy by hanging an settlement to beef up the safety of categorized data associated to protection trade cooperation between the 2 international locations.
In accordance with the 2019 settlement on the mutual safety of categorized data within the protection trade, a replica of which was obtained by Nordic Monitor, the international locations agreed to determine procedures to make sure the safety of categorized knowledge on the acquisition of navy tools and arms, protection methods and spare elements and the analysis, improvement, and manufacturing of protection materiel.
In Could Turkish Inside Minister Süleyman Soylu introduced that Turkey and Hungary have been negotiating to print one another’s passports within the occasion of an emergency. The meant settlement paves the way in which for the 2 international locations to switch their residents’ private data to one another.
Contemplating that the Turkish opposition claims the federal government will secretly give citizenship and identification playing cards to Syrian refugees specifically earlier than the elections in 2023, the truth that the European nation with which Turkey will share its residents’ private knowledge is Hungary, run by the authoritarian Orbán, who’s near the Islamist Erdoğan, has raised issues. Along with drawing consideration for his or her closeness to Russia, the 2 leaders are steadily on the agenda with their human rights violations and illegal stress on the opposition at residence.
The Turkish opposition typically claims that President Erdoğan is imitating Orbán’s anti-democratic ways. Turkey’s principal opposition Republican Folks’s Social gathering (CHP) final month proposed a liberal modification to the regulation concerning the suitable for ladies to put on a scarf, whereas Erdoğan steered a constitutional modification. Later, it turned out that Erdoğan would add phrases to the constitutional modification in opposition to LGBT people with a purpose to defend the household and that he would take it to a referendum.
In Hungary the Orbán authorities modified the definition of household with a constitutional modification in 2002, banning same-sex {couples} from adopting.
Within the constitutional modification, “Hungary protects the establishment of marriage, established on the idea of a voluntary choice between a person and a girl, and the household, which is the idea of the survival of the nation. The premise of the household relationship is marriage and the parent-child relationship. The mom is a girl and the daddy is a person.”
It’s claimed by the opposition that Erdoğan’s authorities can be engaged on an analogous proposal.
