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| Berlin freezes arms shipments to Turkey: Report |
| 2017-07-22 |
| [AlAhram] Germany has frozen all arms deliveries to ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , a newspaper reported Friday, amid a row between the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... partners that has sharply worsened since Ankara tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... several human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... activists. Berlin stepped up its travel advisory for Turkey on Thursday and warned it would review state guarantees for foreign investment there -- measures which Ankara labelled "blackmail and threats". As part of a sweeping overhaul of bilateral ties, Germany is also "freezing all planned and ongoing arms deliveries to Turkey," the top-circulation Bild newspaper reported without citing a source. Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom... 's right-hand man, Peter Altmaier, did not confirm or deny the report in a ZDF television interview but warned that "we will at any time consider whether further measures are necessary". Relations between Turkey and Germany, home to three million ethnic Turks, have been badly strained, particularly since a failed coup a year ago against President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... In the months after the July 2016 coup attempt, Germany already blocked 11 separate arms export shipments to Turkey, including handguns, ammunition or weapons components, according to media reports. Relations sharply deteriorated after a In the war of words, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble compared Erdogan's Turkey with the former communist German Democratic Republic (GDR). "Turkey is arresting people arbitrarily and not respecting even minimal consular standards," said Schaeuble. "It reminds me of the way it was in the GDR. When you travelled there, you knew, if something happens to you, nobody can help you." Altmaier also confirmed that Berlin would urge Brussels to freeze 4.45 billion euros ($5.2 billion) in EU funds theoretically earmarked until end-2020 for Turkey, a long-term aspirant for membership to the bloc. |
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