{"id":1834,"date":"2017-03-29T22:16:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T22:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=1834"},"modified":"2017-03-29T22:16:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T22:16:10","slug":"germany-has-found-eight-alternatives-to-incirlik-airbase-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/03\/29\/germany-has-found-eight-alternatives-to-incirlik-airbase-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"GERMANY HAS FOUND EIGHT ALTERNATIVES TO INCIRLIK AIRBASE IN TURKEY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/03\/LUFTWAFFE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1835\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/03\/LUFTWAFFE-1024x607.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/03\/LUFTWAFFE.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/03\/LUFTWAFFE-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/03\/LUFTWAFFE-768x455.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/03\/LUFTWAFFE-560x332.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/03\/LUFTWAFFE-260x154.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/03\/LUFTWAFFE-160x95.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced : Kom News<\/p>\n<p>Germany\u2019s efforts to find an alternative to Incirlik airbase in Turkey have resulted in eight candidate bases in Jordan, Kuwait and Cyprus, according to a press release reported by German daily <em>Die Welt<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe investigation of alternative locations to the Turkish air base Incirlik has shown that, from a military point of view, there are suitable locations in Jordan, Kuwait and Cyprus,\u201d the Federal Government said in a response to a request from the Left Party in the Bundestag, German daily <em>Die Welt<\/em> reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey, as a NATO member state, is one of Germany\u2019s key partners in the area. The German\u00a0troops engaging in the Syrian conflict are stationed at Incirlik, located in the Turkish city of Adana on the Mediterranean sea.<\/p>\n<p>Ankara refused to issue entrance permits for German politicians wanting to visit the Incirlik base after the Bundestag\u2019s resolution of June 2016 which commemorated the massacre of Armenians in 1915.<\/p>\n<p>After the German government spokesman clarified that the resolution was not legally binding and only an expression of the parliament\u2019s opinion, the dispute was solved but voices in Germany claimed it was a necessity to remove the base from Turkey. Chancellor Angela Merkel, however, stated in November 2016 that Germany had no intentions to move German\u00a0troops elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced : Kom News Germany\u2019s efforts to find an alternative to Incirlik airbase in Turkey have resulted in eight candidate bases in Jordan, Kuwait and Cyprus, according to a press release reported by German daily Die Welt. \u201cThe investigation of alternative locations to the Turkish air base Incirlik has shown that, from a military point&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/03\/29\/germany-has-found-eight-alternatives-to-incirlik-airbase-in-turkey\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GERMANY HAS FOUND EIGHT ALTERNATIVES TO INCIRLIK AIRBASE IN TURKEY<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1404,495,1405,66,90],"class_list":["post-1834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","tag-chancellor-angela-merkel","tag-germany","tag-incirlik-airbase","tag-nato","tag-turkey","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1836,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions\/1836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}