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Baykar drones at heart of Turkish-Emirati reconciliation

Bayraktar TB2 drone exhibited at Saha Expo 2021 in Istanbul.
Bayraktar TB2 drone exhibited at Saha Expo 2021 in Istanbul. © Twitter @BaykarTech

Turkey and the UAE are committed to normalising their relations and hope to see a fruitful economic relationship emerge based on defence investments. All this depends, however, on the two countries being able to take the sting out of certain sticking points, not least the matter of Mohamed Dahlan, protected by Abu Dhabi and targeted by Ankara.

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Russia, Ukraine
Kyiv reviews its troops after alert over supposed Moscow and Akhmetov-backed coup

Police officers stand guard outside the parliament building as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses lawmakers during a parliamentary session in Kyiv, Ukraine, 1 December 2021.
Police officers stand guard outside the parliament building as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses lawmakers during a parliamentary session in Kyiv, Ukraine, 1 December 2021. © Gleb Garanich/Reuters

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky says he is determined to defuse the crisis with Russia but is having to devote some of his energy to fighting his new internal enemy, oligarch Rinat Akhmetov. By claiming to have discovered a coup plan backed both by Moscow and Akhmetov supporters, he has been able to kill two birds with one stone.

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