Germany to withdraw Bundeswehr deployment from Turkish Incirlik airbase

Emil Lazarian 2017
news.am, Armenia
June 5 2017
Germany to withdraw Bundeswehr deployment from Turkish Incirlik airbase

17:55, 05.06.2017

The last attempt to settle the conflict between Berlin and Ankara around the right of the lawmakers to visit the strategic Incirlik air base failed, DW reported.

Berlin has no choice but to withdraw the Bundeswehr deployment from the strategic base, said Germany's foreign minister, Sigmar Gabriel.

Authorities have considered several countries for the relocation of the troops, including Jordan. 

"I regret that, but Turkey must understand that for domestic political reasons, we must transfer German soldiers out of Incirlik … In this situation, the Bundestag will ask the government to find another location for the German soldiers in Incirlik," German FM said following the meeting with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu on Monday.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS