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German military resumes tanker flights after move from Turkish base
2017-07-12
[AlAhram] The German air force on Tuesday resumed refuelling operations from an air base in Jordan in support of U.S.-led air strikes against Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group after moving its Airbus MRTT tanker out of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's Incirlik air base, a military front man said.

Germany began pulling its troops out of the Ottoman Turkish base on Sunday after a long-running row with Ankara over its decision to block German politicians from visiting German soldiers stationed there.

Turkey is at odds with Germany over a number of issues , ranging from criticism of the post-coup clampdown by Ankara to limiting Ottoman Turkish political campaigning in Germany.

Germany insisted that politicians be given the right to visit its soldiers, since parliament, not the government, has oversight of the country's armed forces.

"The tanker has now flown its first mission out of Jordan," the front man told Rooters after officials briefed politicians.

Six German Tornado fighter jets that are flying surveillance missions as part of the fight against Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, will continue operating out of the Ottoman Turkish air base until the end of July, officials have said.

Germany plans to bring the aircraft back to Germany then for maintenance and other operations until preparations for their operation have been completed at the new Jordanian base.
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