German Foreign Ministry

Eight generals and admirals and more than 260 low-ranking military officials suspected of involvement in the July 2016 coup attempt, are currently on the run abroad, according to Turkish officials.

The runaway military personnel are believed to be in EU countries, according to Turkish officials. 

Two former Turkish generals suspected of being involved in the July 15, 2016, coup attempt have applied for asylum in Germany, according to local media reports released on May 14, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.        

A total of 262 asylum requests from Turkish citizens who have worked as diplomats or soldiers are currently being reviewed by Germany's Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), Der Spiegel reported on April 1.

According to Der Spiegel, the BAMF had not yet made a decision on any of the cases.

Germany has given its "conditional" approval to Ankara's request to open polling stations in the country for the April 16 referendum on constitutional changes in Turkey, a German government official said March 15, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported. 

Germany has joined the Netherlands in revising its travel advice for Turkey, amid a deepening row over European cancelations of events by Turkish officials aimed at rallying support for a "yes" vote in the upcoming constitutional referendum. 

So far, a total of 136 citizens with diplomatic status have requested asylum in the Federal Republic of Germany, announced the German Foreign Ministry.

Germany said Feb. 13 that a summit with Israel planned for later this year had been delayed, with Israeli media reporting it was due to the Jewish state's controversial new settlements law.

Israel passed a new law last week that legalizes dozens of Jewish outposts and thousands of settler homes built on private Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank.

According to a Bloomberg piece, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is poring over archives of videos with interviews of Donald Trump, including Playboy magazines, desperately seeking ways to better understand and possibly influence the newly elected US President before the two meet. The atricle cites two sources familiar with her preparations. From the Bloomberg:

Four months after the coup attempt in Turkey, several Turkish soldiers have requested political asylum in Germany.

These are Turkish officers at NATO's military base in Ramstein.

At least six people have been killed in a powerful Taliban truck bombing at the German consulate in Afghanistan's Mazar-i-Sharif city on Nov. 11, with more than 100 others wounded in a major militant assault.