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The Left Party (Die Linke) in Germany Assembly Group Chair Sahra Wagenknecht has demanded that the Germany withdraw its soldiers assigned in NATO base from Konya in protest of Afrin operation.
Deutsche Welle reported that Wagenknecht in her interview to Funke Media Group said, “It is possible that the information obtained by AWACS reconnaissance planes equipped with early warning system is used in war launched by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan against the Syrian Kurds, therefore the German armed forces members must immediately withdraw from the NATO base in Konya”.
They had withdrawn from İncirlik
Upon government of Turkey not allowing MPs of Germany to visit Germany’s soldiers, the forces of Germany had withdrawn from İncirlik base. Taking off from Konya, the AWACS planes carry out reconnaissance flights in international and Turkey’s airfield.
Wagenknecht called on Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel and Germany’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sigmar Gabriel to stop arms delivery to Turkey. (PT/TK)
