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NATO aspirant Finland: No arms embargo against Turkey
In the course of the dispute over NATO’s northern expansion, the Finnish defense minister has denied Turkish accusations that the country had imposed an arms embargo on Ankara. There is no such ban, Antti Kaikkonen said in Ankara on Thursday, according to the state news agency Anadolu. There he met his Turkish counterpart Hulusi Akar. The Turkish government had previously imposed an “embargo” on Finland and demanded that it be lifted before Ankara could become part of a NATO