Yep, it finally came up in the German Bundestag....should Turkey be led out of NATO. It was a SPD political figure who made the speech and suggested that with all this 'trouble'....maybe it was time to force them out.
If you go back to 1952....Turkey has been in NATO, and other than the mid-1970s when the Cyprus business came up.....that's been the only period where people in Europe asked questions over the membership.
Will this German position be picked up and moved forward? I doubt it. The CDU doesn't want to generate any negativity with Turkey because it'd just go and trigger the release of 3-million Syrian refugees, and they'd suddenly arrive in Germany to create the next mass refugee problem.
But the Greens and Linke Party will probably talk about this in the open, and create a Turkish response.
I will add this funny footnote on the NATO chatter. AKK (the German Defense Minister) had this brilliant idea over the weekend....that Germany (with the NATO apparatus behind it) could come into northern Syria and provide peace-keeper 'forces'.
Well.....this German military 'show' for northern Syria was rapidly discussed within the SPD, and they were fairly negative and frustrated with the idea. 'No way' could be described as the response.
Then AKK showed up three days later at a NATO conference, and voiced the idea. Guess what....NATO didn't really want to discuss the idea either. Primary factor? Well, guess what.....the US has zero interest in being a peace-keeper in the region. The Brits? Zero interest.
So maybe it'll be discussed here in Germany, and maybe they (the Germans) could partner up with China or India....to make something happen, but I seriously doubt that this idea gets brought up again.
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