Turkey Allows German MPs To Visit Base After Row: German Minister
Muhammad Rameez Published September 08, 2016 | 04:20 PM
BERLIN, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News -8th Sept,2016) - Germany said Thursday that Turkey had approved a visit by German lawmakers to a Turkish NATO airbase after initially refusing access amid a row over the Armenian "genocide".
"I welcome the fact the Turkish government has now approved the plans for a visit by the defence committee of the German parliament" to the Icirlik base, said Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
"With this decision by the Turkish government, we have taken a step forward," he said after months of discord since the German parliament angered Turkey in June by labelling the Ottomans' World War I-era massacre of Armenians a "genocide".
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