The German government had warned Turkey before the Offensive, and supported the Kurdish Peshmerga continues. The military operation could have a serious effect on the German domestic and foreign policy.
The Federal government had turned a few hours previously to Ankara. On demand of the Deutsche Welle, the spokesman of the foreign office, Mr Burger said, “we have asked the Turkish government as the Federal government repeatedly urges of a military Intervention in the North-East of Syria in sight. It is precisely because we fear that such an Intervention threatens to destabilize the situation in the Region, a resurgence of the IS (Islamic state) to be transported and conditions could create the new flight lead.” Foreign Minister Heiko Maas was after the beginning of the action even more clearly: “We call on Turkey to end their Offensive and to pursue their security interests by peaceful way.”
Kurdish militias in the fight against the Islamic state
Kurdish militias in the neighboring country of Iraq have been pulled years ago, with the support of the United States and Germany in the fight against the IS. The Kurdish allies there after the withdrawal of the American military and the start of the Offensive now alone and want to fight back.
The Federal Chairman of the Kurdish community in Germany, Mehmet Tanriverdi, is now calling for quick Action by the German government. In an interview with Deutsche Welle, he is an advocate for a halt to all war weapons deliveries to Turkey. Berlin could also threaten: “Mr Erdogan, we will make Turkey’s membership in NATO is in doubt.”
Defence Minister Kramp-Karrenbauer at the Peshmerga Training in Iraq (21.9.2019)
Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer had said the Kurdish partners of Germany in the North of Iraq on Tuesday for more support. The development shows that the Bundeswehr would need to set the use in the North of Iraq in any case, continued, “we need to toughen up the Kurds in the space of Erbil more, more self-sufficient need to set up”. The defence Minister had recently visited the Bundeswehr mission in Iraq and would like to, that the use will be extended. The mandate ends in October. The last word of the Bundestag, however, has.
Training mission and humanitarian aid to Kurds in Iraq
The Federal government supports the fight of the Kurds against the Islamic state since the summer of 2014. In Syria itself, the German army troops no ground in use. But with the training, support Berlin, wanted to equip the Kurdish Peshmerga militias in Northern Iraq for the fight against the Islamic state. The Peshmerga, the armed forces of the Autonomous Kurdistan Region in Iraq. The mandate, the Bundestag has extended again and again. The German government has also supplied weapons to the Peshmerga, which was the Turkish government has always been a thorn in the eye. Bazookas, machine guns, radios, and even missiles, but also all the field kitchens were delivered to the Kurdish militia. The weapons would have a value of around 70 million euros, reported the “mirror”.
Germany has performed and humanitarian aid for the suffering people, especially refugees from the Kurdish part of Iraq.
A spokesman for the Federal government liquidated the utility payments to approximately 50 million Euro for 2017. The funds would be made especially for the stabilization of the IS liberated territories available.
Fear of protests, German IS-fighters and refugees
On Tuesday, angry Kurds were in Berlin to the streets to protest against the impending attack of the Turkish army on the Syrian Kurdish area. The Kurdish autonomy in management worldwide has called for protests.
Worldwide Kurdish protests – like this one in Syria – have been announced
Hundreds of thousands of Kurds live in Germany, and many sympathize with the Kurdish fighters of the YPG. The fear of the German security authorities that the protests could expand and also symbols of the outlawed PKK are shown. Although this is banned in the whole EU, but in Germany again and again to violent clashes between PKK sympathizers and the police. In an Interview with Deutsche Welle, the foreign policy spokesman of the Union faction, Jürgen Hardt, called on the protesters to remain calm: “please Remain peaceful! There is no right to violent actions.”
And then there’s another concern: What happens if in the Kurdish region, the situation gets out of control, and the prisons can no longer be guarded? Around 12,000 IS fighters sitting there, including, the Federal Ministry of the interior, about 100 from Germany. You could flee back to their homeland.
Human rights activists and the society for threatened peoples believe that there could be a case of a Turkish attack in Northern Syria, hundreds of thousands of refugees. Probably is that many people flee to the East, in the Kurdish Autonomous region in Iraq. Not a few might flee to Europe.
Armed reconnaissance flights
German Tornado aircraft with reconnaissance cameras
The Turkish Offensive, the government is now to another area in trouble. Since 2016, the Bundeswehr supports the fight against the IS with Tornado-reconnaissance and tanker aircraft. The Tornados are stationed in Jordan, and provide aerial reconnaissance images for the NATO, so the NATO-member Turkey. “At least now the time to stop, to deliver the Turkey images that you adverse may result in your international law, and on the escalation scale war in Syria is” criticized a few days ago, the foreign policy spokesman of the Greens group in the Bundestag, Omid Nouripour, the editorial network in Germany.
The beginning of the military offensive by Turkey in Northern Syria, is also for Germany, a foreign-policy challenge. And the has just begun.