Germany grants asylum to ‘several’ NATO troops wanted by Ankara over failed coup attempt – reports

‘Germany has granted refugee status to Turkish nationals who were stationed at NATO bases and applied for asylum amid Ankara’s wide scale crackdown on disloyal officials after a failed coup in Turkey last July, according to local media reports.
Only “several” Turkish soldiers and their families have been so far given asylum in Germany, the Süddeutsche Zeitung paper, WDR and NDR reported. The asylum seekers are reportedly Turkish officers with diplomatic passports who used to be stationed at NATO bases in Germany and were later dismissed by Ankara.
According Süddeutsche Zeitung sources, Germany’s Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) previously held back on reviewing the applications, while awaiting the result of the Turkish constitutional reform referendum.’
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