Weapons confiscated in Turkey are for Egypt

The Turkish foreign minister Abdullah Gul announced that the Egyptian authorities stressed that the weapons shipment discovered on the board of a ship in Istanbul on Thursday is owned by Egypt.

Gul told journalists " the Egyptian government announced it owns the weapons.." However, the Turkish customs authorities discovered the weapons which are sent from Ukraine including missile monitored by radio during an unloading operation from the ship which hoists the flag of Portugal, and taken from Ukraine to be loaded in a ship heading for Egypt.

The Turkish daily al-Sabah said yesterday that the ship which was carrying weapons monitored by the NATO satellites since it had left Ukraine until its arrival to Turkey and that the American intelligence notified the Turkish authorities on that.