No German Soldiers on the Turkish-Syrian Border
According to today's media reports of an impending NATO mission at the Turkish-Syrian border, in which also German anti-aircraft missiles are to deployed, the member of the party executive committee of DIE LINKE, Wolfgang Gehrcke, declares:
Next Monday, Turkey will send an official request to NATO to provide it with a Patriot type missile system to protect their territory. The announcement of this measure alone will further fuel the cycle of violence and stoke the hatred and willingness of all parties that are involved in the conflict to use violence. The deployment of anti-aircraft missiles with the appropriate staff of 170 German soldiers who have to work the Patriots is absolutely inacceptable.
I emphatically request of the Federal Government to immediately call on the parliament for a mandate. The behavior of the federal government to agree with the military action without parliamentary decision contradicts the parliamentary participation act and is undemocratic. There is no military threat to Turkey, insofar the Federal Government can not refer to the NATO treaty. German troops on the Syrian border could become a part of the military conflict, and thus can risk killing or being killed.
Only a truce and a ban on arms delivery to all warring parties will calm the situation in the Middle East at least firstly. Where weapons speak, sanity is absent.