BERLIN
50 activists have taken over the stage at the Rheinmetall Shareholders Meeting. The acitivists chanted: “German tanks out of Kurdistan! Rheinmetall earns through Turkish attacks on Rojava. Stop weapon exports to Turkey!”
The company explained:
“In the field of defence, we are currently experiencing a supercycle. We are in a favourable market environment, the German market has regained its importance. We will generate up to 2 billion sales with German customers in the next few years”
Rheinmetall, the focus of Germany’s anti-armament movement, has been manufacturing tanks in a joint venture with the Erdogan regime, with approval from the Federal German Government. Erdogan himself received executives from Rheinmetall in his palace, and the Turkish army’s tanks had been modernized by Rheinmetall before the invasion of Afrin. The company’s Leopard 2 tanks had been used in many crimes, trampling international law.
