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| Turkey will allow German MPs to visit troops: Berlin | |
| 2017-08-09 | |
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has agreed to let German politicians visit troops stationed at a ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... stepped in to reduce tensions over the hot-button issue. Up to seven MPs will be allowed to visit Konya airfield in central Turkey on September 8 as part of a NATO trip, Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel wrote in a letter to the German parliamentary defence committee Monday. Ankara blocked a planned July visit by German MPs to Konya, where some 30 German soldiers are stationed, citing the deteriorating relationship with Berlin. The long-simmering row over MPs' access to German troops on Approval for the Konya visit came after NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg offered to arrange the trip for the German politicians within the defence alliance's framework, to which Ankara agreed, according to Gabriel. German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen told DPA news agency it was "a good solution". "We should focus on fighting Islamist terrorism, which is also in Turkey's interest," she said. Germany is part of a multinational coalition fighting the 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... jihadist group, flying surveillance missions and refuelling flights. | |
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