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Turkey 'blocking' German MPs' visit to Incirlik air base
Topic Started: Jun 24 16, 1:35 (292 Views)
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Millet Press
June 23, 2016

Turkey is blocking plans by a senior German delegation to visit the Incirlik air base, German officials have said.

Germany has 250 soldiers and several planes at the base in southern Turkey, from where they carry out operations against so-called Islamic State (IS).

But ties between Berlin and Ankara have been strained by a German parliamentary vote to label as genocide the 1915 killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks.

Turkey has not commented on why it has not approved the German plans.

The visit had been expected to take place in July.
"The Turkish authorities at the moment are not approving the travel plans," a German defence ministry spokesman said.

"There is no written statement on the reason." He added that the delegation, headed by deputy defence minister Ralf Brauksiepe and including other members of parliament, still hoped the trip could go ahead.

Last week, Germany's defence ministry said it was finalising an agreement with Turkey on building new housing and aircraft facilities for the German troops at Incirlik.

http://www.milletpress.com/Detail_EN.aspx?Jiamre=1130
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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