Turkish foreign ministry announced that Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide had a phone call with his counterpart Hakan Fidan on Wednesday and announced that Oslo lifted defense-industry related restrictions on Türkiye in place since 2019, Paralel.Az reports citing Daily Sabah.

Ministry’s spokesman Öncü Keçeli said in a social media post that Fidan expressed Türkiye’s pleasure with the decision and underlined that such restrictions have contradicted the spirit of alliance.