Turkey Demands Germany Disavow Parliament Genocide Vote to Get Access to Incirlik

“But unfortunately I have to say that those that mingle and manipulate our history in an unfair manner cannot be allowed on this visit,” he said, in reference to the Armenian resolution.

Foreign Ministry officials said “necessary steps” meant the German government distancing itself from the parliamentary resolution and making clear it did not support it.

Germany’s Foreign Minister FrankWalter Steinmeier responded brusquely to Cavusolgu, saying if Turkey continues denying German lawmakers to visit the base, German troops stationed there with the goal of fighting IS will be withdrawn, according to Deutsche Welle. “Since the federal parliament affirms the issue of foreign military missions in Incirlik, then it is necessary for the lawmakers to be able to visit the mission”, he said.

He denied Cavusoglu’s demand regarding Germany distancing itself from the Armenian genocide resolution. “I don’t think this has anything to do with the matter and I have told this to my Turkish colleague,” Steinmeier said.

The German Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer added: “A resolution of the German Bundestag is a political declaration of a German constitutional body,” Schaefer told reporters. “I believe it is a very good idea … that constitutional entities only comment on each other’s work very carefully, if at all.”

Germany’s European Affairs Minister Michael Roth, who just returned to Germany from a visit to Ankara, earlier told broadcaster Suedwestrundfunk that the two countries had made progress in resolving the dispute over Incirlik.