Two opposition parties of Germany, the Greens and the Left, submitted a joint proposal to the Bundestag calling on to immediately withdraw the German soldiers from Turkey’s Incirlik air base, Deutsche Welle reports.
“The German army is the army of the parliament, and the parliamentarian must control it all the time. Thus, the Germany army must be immediately pulled out of the Incirlik air base”, stated in the proposal.
Germany's Green Party Co-chairman Cem Ozdemir said banning the Bundestag lawmakers to visit the air base is ‘considered as loss of trust within the frames of NATO partners’. “The Federal government has followed for a long time how president Erdogan turned our soldiers into foreign policy tool”, Ozdemir said.
The proposal will be likely put up to voting on May 17 in the Bundestag. A number of lawmakers of the ruling party also expressed ...
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