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| Reports: Germany Grants Asylum to Turkish Military Personnel |
| 2017-05-09 |
| [AnNahar] Germany has granted political asylum to numerous Turkish military personnel and their families holding diplomatic passports, German media reported Monday, amid strained relations between the two NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... allies. The German interior ministry was not immediately available for comment. "I can say no more!" but according to the Sueddeutsche Zeitung daily and public broadcasters WDR and NDR, authorities confirmed that Germany gave positive responses to the asylum petitions of these Turkish nationals. The interior ministry said last month that it had received 262 applications for political asylum from Turkish nationals holding diplomatic passports, but it did not say how many of the requests came from Turkish military personnel stationed at NATO bases. Since the July 2016 failed coup in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , 414 military personnel, diplomats, judges and other high-ranking Turkish officials have sought political asylum in Germany, according to interior ministry figures published by the three German media. That number also includes family members. The wave of asylum requests followed the attempted coup against President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... and a subsequent crackdown, which has seen more than 100,000 people fired, suspended from their jobs, or detained over alleged links to the plotters or to Kurdish Death Eaters. Last week, Turkey announced the sacking of over 100 judges and prosecutors. The weekend before, it had dismissed nearly 4,000 public officials under the state of emergency while over 9,100 police were suspended on April 26. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 Turkey and Germany have longstanding ties dating not only to WWI, but to Prussia's de facto alliance with the Ottomans in the Austro-Turkish War in the late eighteenth century. They're better off without each other, but they can't seem to learn. |
| Posted by: charger 2017-05-09 17:46 |
| #3 By that, I meant their military personnel. |
| Posted by: Raj 2017-05-09 17:41 |
| #2 Turks have been in Germany for quite a while now - I was amazed at how many |
| Posted by: Raj 2017-05-09 17:39 |
| #1 I was asking myself, "Why Germany?" Then I was thinking, "Growing industrial economy" when this struck me, "enrolling language and tactics advisory personnel in the military." |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-05-09 14:54 |