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Turkish drones are destroying Ethiopia’s promise of peace
Posted By Joshua Dunne on October 25, 2022 @ 13:30
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[1] black sheep: https://nord.news/2022/05/31/historical-crises-where-turkey-has-been-seen-as-natos-black-sheep/
[2] suspend the use : https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-718701
[3] dismissing warnings: https://www.reuters.com/markets/turkey-dismisses-concerns-over-us-sanctions-warning-2022-08-26/
[4] ‘meaningless: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/26/turkey-says-concerns-over-us-sanctions-warning-meaningless
[5] weaponised refugees: https://ahvalnews.com/greece/turkey-pushing-migrants-brutal-weaponization-against-greece-athens
[6] ethnic cleansing: https://inews.co.uk/news/long-reads/mass-ethnic-cleansing-syrian-kurds-collateral-ukraine-war-1717889
[7] arrested, abducted and tortured: https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/europe-and-central-asia/turkey/report-turkey/
[8] Great War of Africa: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/terror-and-security/how-tigrays-great-war-africa-raging-cover-media-blackout/
[9] reignited: https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2022/09/07/why-has-ethiopias-ceasefire-failed
[10] horrific crimes : https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/24/ethiopia-fighting-tplf-war-tigray/
[11] half a million: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/the-worlds-deadliest-war-isnt-in-ukraine-but-in-ethiopia/2022/03/22/eaf4b83c-a9b6-11ec-8a8e-9c6e9fc7a0de_story.html
[12] agricultural devastation: https://reliefweb.int/report/ethiopia/ethiopia-africa-hunger-crisis-operation-update-ndeg-1-appeal-ndeg-mdret027
[13] estimates: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/7/droughts-and-hunger-what-is-happening-in-the-horn-of-africa
[14] repressive and autocratic : https://nationalinterest.org/feature/abiy-ahmed-and-consolidation-ethiopia%E2%80%99s-dictatorship-175870
[15] equipped his forces: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/12/10/how-armed-drones-may-have-helped-turn-tide-in-ethiopia-conflict
[16] from international suppliers: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/20/world/africa/drones-ethiopia-war-turkey-emirates.html
[17] United Arab Emirates, China and Iran: https://www.theafricareport.com/169947/ethiopias-drone-wars-iran-china-and-turkey-deliver-the-air-power-behind-abiys-resurgence/
[18] finalised a security pact: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/04/ethiopia-turkey-pact-fuels-speculation-about-drone-use-in-tigray-war
[19] ‘the Toyota Corolla of drones’: https://www.ft.com/content/948605a1-cf6c-40ea-b403-9a97d72be2cf
[20] issue a statement: https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/10/1129632
[21] terrorist retaliations: https://trackingterrorism.org/group/tigray-peoples-liberation-front/
[22] prevented aid providers: https://sites.tufts.edu/reinventingpeace/2022/01/17/make-the-sky-safe-again-ending-impunity-for-drone-attacks-in-tigray/
[23] compounding the crisis: https://www.vox.com/22545382/tigray-famine-ethiopia-abiy-war
[24] precarious economic situation: https://www.ft.com/content/d6b86397-5b1a-4f54-a21d-786da4b0abc9
[25] political vulnerabilities: https://www.mei.edu/publications/turkish-views-crisis-and-opportunities-turkey-2023
[26] drones already: https://www.dailysabah.com/business/defense/turkeys-baykar-buys-land-to-produce-bayraktar-in-ukraine-ambassador