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| German air force scouting alternatives to Turkey base |
| 2016-11-26 |
| [Ynet] Amid frosty relations with Ankara, Germany is considering moving military planes involved in the international mission against ISIS from ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... to Jordan, Kuwait or Cyprus. The Defense Ministry says it's scouting alternative locations to the Incirlik Air Base in Turkey at the request of Parliament. German politicians have repeatedly been prevented from visiting the base after passing a resolution that labeled killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks a century ago as genocide. German daily Bild, which first reported the move Friday, says military officials plan to travel to Amman on Saturday. Bild reports that moving Germany's Tornado reconnaissance jets and a refueling plane from the Turkey base would take several weeks. The German air force planes aren't currently flying combat missions |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 Wish we'd move our base out of Turkey too. But hard to move Nukes without Erdogan making a move to seize them. |
| Posted by: Charles 2016-11-26 21:41 |
| #4 Jordan, Kuwait or Cyprus Hopefully 'all' is an option. Interesting Iraq isn't mentioned. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-11-26 16:00 |
| #3 Israel might be a bridge too far... |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2016-11-26 15:22 |
| #2 ...IIRC, there's a major Brit airbase on Cyprus. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-11-26 14:56 |
| #1 I understand the Germans are familiar with Crete... |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2016-11-26 13:31 |