Russia In the Ukraine conflict, Western countries are supporting Ukraine with weapons and other equipment. Germany has so far sent 5,000 troops to Ukraine.
In this context, Ukraine requested a supply of weapons from Germany, which was rejected by Germany. Both Chancellor Olaf Schulz and Foreign Minister Analina Bierbock, citing the German government's political rules and regulations, said weapons would not be exported to crisis areas.
The coalition agreement between the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Environmentalist Green Party and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) states that exemptions in arms supplies are possible only in legitimate matters and should be documented.
The German government has long maintained that Germany will not send weapons to the crisis zone or provide lethal weapons to Ukraine.
Christian MŲilling, a German defense and security expert with the German Council on Foreign Relations, says Germany examines each case individually and decides according to the situation.
According to the Stockholm Institute for Peace Research, Germany has recently sent weapons to crisis areas. According to Peter Weizmann, an expert at the institute, it is not true that Germany did not provide arms to the crisis-stricken countries and elements.
Egypt has been the fifth largest buyer of German weapons since 2010, according to the Super Trend Indicator's arms export estimates. Exports to Egypt amounted to 4.34 billion euros between January 1, 2021 and December 14, 2021, according to data from the German Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action.
Most of these approvals were given in the last days of the government of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Egypt has been criticized for human rights abuses and the Egyptian military is involved in the conflicts in Yemen and Libya.
NATO member Turkey is also a major buyer of German weapons. The United Nations ranks it among the countries that intervene in wars by providing weapons.
Germany has made its own policy of not supplying weapons to crisis areas, but has not consistently adhered to them. On several occasions, the German government has allowed the supply of weapons to countries that are themselves parties to a conflict or are considered crisis areas.
