{"id":4793,"date":"2019-07-04T21:31:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T21:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4793"},"modified":"2019-07-04T21:31:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T21:31:30","slug":"ankara-covertly-sends-42-german-made-leopard-2a4-mbt-to-occupied-cyprus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2019\/07\/04\/ankara-covertly-sends-42-german-made-leopard-2a4-mbt-to-occupied-cyprus\/","title":{"rendered":"ANKARA COVERTLY SENDS 42 GERMAN MADE LEOPARD 2A4 MBT TO OCCUPIED CYPRUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/07\/LEOPARD-2A4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4794\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/07\/LEOPARD-2A4-1024x687.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/07\/LEOPARD-2A4-1024x687.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/07\/LEOPARD-2A4-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/07\/LEOPARD-2A4-768x516.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/07\/LEOPARD-2A4-560x376.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/07\/LEOPARD-2A4-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/07\/LEOPARD-2A4-160x107.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/07\/LEOPARD-2A4.jpg 1430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a>Source: To Vima<\/p>\n<p>As the klieg lights of international attention were turned toward Turkey\u2019s illegal activity in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the Republic of Cyprus, Ankara in a secret operation transported 42 German Leopard-2A4 supertanks tanks to Kythrea in Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus.<\/p>\n<p>The tanks along with their ammunition were transported from the Turkish city of Edirne by transport ship.<\/p>\n<p>The tanks belong to Turkey\u2019s First Army in the Evros region, where all Turkish Army tanks with 120mm projectiles are kept (the Leopard 2A4 and the Israeli M-60T Sabra) along with modernised Leopard-1T tanks with 105mm projectiles.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.tovima.gr\/2019\/07\/03\/international\/ankara-secretly-sends-42-german-leopard-2a4-tanks-to-occupied-cyprus\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: To Vima As the klieg lights of international attention were turned toward Turkey\u2019s illegal activity in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the Republic of Cyprus, Ankara in a secret operation transported 42 German Leopard-2A4 supertanks tanks to Kythrea in Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus. The tanks along with their ammunition were transported from the Turkish&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2019\/07\/04\/ankara-covertly-sends-42-german-made-leopard-2a4-mbt-to-occupied-cyprus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ANKARA COVERTLY SENDS 42 GERMAN MADE LEOPARD 2A4 MBT TO OCCUPIED CYPRUS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4795,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793\/revisions\/4795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}