About 40 Turkish NATO soldiers requested haven in Germany
A record print of Turkish soldiers. PHOTO: REUTERS
BERLIN: About 40 mostly high-ranking Turkish soldiers who worked during NATO comforts in Germany though were dangling after a unsuccessful manoeuvre in Turkey in Jul have requested haven in Germany, news repository Der Spiegel and broadcaster ARD reported on Saturday.
No criticism was immediately accessible from a supervision or NATO officials.
The reports of a haven applications filed by Turkish soldiers in Germany came as Chancellor Angela Merkel prepares to transport to Turkey to accommodate President Tayyip Erdogan.
Ties between a dual NATO partners have been stretched over issues including purported espionage by Turkish clerics in Germany, German concerns about Turkey’s crackdown on dissidents, and Ankara’s indictment that Berlin is harboring militants from a Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and far-leftists of a DHKP-C.
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The news quoted officials with German sovereign emigration bureau and a interior method as observant that a haven applications would be rubbed as all others.
Norbert Roettgen, conduct of a parliamentary unfamiliar affairs committee, told Spiegel that domestic considerations could not play a purpose in haven cases.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told a discussion in Nov that some Turkish infantry officers posted to NATO in Europe had requested haven though gave no specific numbers.
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Reuters reported in Oct that Turkey had dismissed hundreds of comparison infantry staff portion during NATO in Europe and a United States after a coup. Most were removed to Turkey, though some chose not to return, fearing reprisals.
Greece’s Supreme Court this week ruled opposite a extradition of 8 Turkish soldiers who fled to Greece in Jul after a unfinished coup.
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