{"id":132853,"date":"2021-12-22T09:22:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T17:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/exclusive-u-s-concerned-over-turkeys-drone-sales-to-conflict-hit-ethiopia"},"modified":"2021-12-22T09:22:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T17:22:37","slug":"exclusive-u-s-concerned-over-turkeys-drone-sales-to-conflict-hit-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/exclusive-u-s-concerned-over-turkeys-drone-sales-to-conflict-hit-ethiopia","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE U.S. concerned over Turkey\u2019s drone sales to conflict-hit Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/exclusive-u-s-concerned-over-turkeys-drone-sales-to-conflict-hit-ethiopia3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ISTANBUL\/ADDIS ABABA, Dec 22 (Reuters) \u2014 U.S. authorities have taken issue with Turkey over its sales of armed drones to Ethiopia, where two sources familiar with the matter said there was mounting evidence the government had used the weapons against rebel fighters.<\/p>\n<p>Washington has \u201cprofound humanitarian concerns\u201d over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/turkey-expands-armed-drone-sales-ethiopia-morocco-sources-2021-10-14\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">sales<\/a>, which could contravene U.S. restrictions on arms to Addis Ababa, a senior Western official said.<\/p>\n<p>The year-long war between Ethiopia\u2019s government and the leadership of the northern Tigray region, among Africa\u2019s bloodiest conflicts, has killed thousands of civilians and displaced millions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISTANBUL\/ADDIS ABABA, Dec 22 (Reuters) \u2014 U.S. authorities have taken issue with Turkey over its sales of armed drones to Ethiopia, where two sources familiar with the matter said there was mounting evidence the government had used the weapons against rebel fighters. Washington has \u201cprofound humanitarian concerns\u201d over the sales, which could contravene U.S. restrictions [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}