Germany's cabinet will vote this week on withdrawing about two hundred fifty German troops from a Turkish air base as a rift widens between the two countries on a number of issues.
Foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel flew to Ankara on Monday in a last ditch effort to avert the standoff.
Our correspondent Ira Spitzer reports from Berlin.
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