Petition: Stop US Cobra sales to Turkey

-US-Turkey deal will be worth an estimated $111 million.

A petition has been launched to ask the Chairman US Senate Foreign Relations Committee to stop the US Cobra sales to Turkey. The Senate can oppose the sale by November 12, 2011.

The transfer of three Bell AH-1W Super Cobra attack helicopters to Turkey under a US Foreign Military Sale were formally notified to Congress by the US Defense Security Co-operation Agency (DSCA) on October 28. The DSCA states that the deal will be worth an estimated $111 million, including associated equipment, parts, training and logistical support. Also included would be one spare T700-GE-401 engine, inspections and modifications, spare and repair parts, personnel training and training equipment.


The helicopters will be second-hand examples drawn from the existing US Marine Corps inventory and will involve two of those currently deployed with US forces in Afghanistan. Once all approvals have been received, www.ekurd.net it is planned to transfer the helicopters in early 2012. They will join the Turkish Land Forces, which already has seven AH-1Ws in its inventory. The DSCA notes that the effect on USMC readiness of the transfer of these helicopters will be mitigated by returning the sales proceeds from the US Treasury’s general receipts account to the USMC’s H-1 upgrades programme to fund additional UH-1Y/AH-1Zs.

The petition can be signed at http://www.change.org/petitions/chairman-us-senate-foreign-relations-committee-stop-us-cobra-sales-to-turkey?Please

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