... to different Kurdish groups that Ankara believes are engaged in terrorist activity. These developments caused serious dissatisfaction among the main EU and NATO actors.
The Turkish leadership found itself in a complicated situation. On the one hand, Germany was actively using Incirlik, a non-NATO facility, for operations against the Islamic State, which were very important to Berlin. On the other hand, Berlin had recalled its air defence systems, which had been an important element of Turkey’s security system.
Significant worsening of relations ...
On November 14, the Federal Academy for Security Policy and the German Atlantic Association, co-hosted an international conference «A New NATO for New Challenges?» in Berlin.
The participants of the conference — high-ranking politicians, military officials, diplomats, experts, and journalists from the Alliance member-states discussed the current and future security and stability ...
... Germany’s participation in military action in Syria.
In this regard, detrimental consequences and non-admission by German public opinion of illegitimate from the internationally accepted legal point of view participation of the Federal Republic of Germany in NATO’s military operation against Yugoslavia in 1999, entailing numerous casualties among civilians of this country, are worth mentioning.
By way of legal reasoning of Bundeswehr mission, stipulating lending aid to France, Iraq and a US-led coalition ...