Berlin and Ankara want NATO assistance to border

ankara - Turkey and Germany to ask its NATO allies for help in tracking the refugees from Turkey over Aegean sea Greece and then try to reach Western Europe. That the Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Monday after a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. US President Barack Obama announced it feel for a role for the alliance.

The spokesman of Merkel made on Twitter that will be discussed 'at NATO levels of support to the Turkish Coast Guard and Frontex, the European border guard. NATO wanted nothing to say about this intention.

,, Turkey and Germany will recommend to NATO together (...) That NATO is involved in the consequences of the influx of refugees from Syria, '' said Davutoglu. He gave a joint press conference with Merkel, who visited him in Ankara.,, We will particularly make a concerted effort to use the monitoring and tracking mechanisms of NATO to the borders and effective in the Aegean Sea. ''

NATO has already decided in December to 'reassuring measures' to help Turkey the refugees cope, told a source at NATO headquarters in Brussels. The alliance promised to include patrols at sea and in the air.,, But NATO has currently no direct part in the response to the immigration crisis, 'said the insider.