S0me 58% of Germans want Turkey expelled from Nato over its recent military offensive in Syria, according to a new survey. Only 18% were against the idea.
There is even stronger German support for economic sanctions and export bans against Ankara, the findings of a YouGov survey, commissioned by news agency dpa and released on October 28, showed.
Nato's founding charter allows for a member to quit the military alliance, but there is no mechanism outlining how a country can be kicked out by other member states.
The pollsters interviewed over 2,000 adult Germans between October 25 and 28.
They also found that 61% of Germans wanted Berlin to take a tougher stance against Turkey, with 61% in favour of economic sanctions against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's country while 69% supported a complete export ban.
Germany is Turkey’s biggest trading partner.
The German government has limited arms sales to Turkey since Erdogan launched the military offensive in northeastern Syria on October 9.
In Germany, many politicians from the Left party have called for Turkey to be booted out of Nato expulsion, while the acting chairman of the centre-left SPD parliamentary group Rolf Mutzenich has similarly called Turkey's membership into question.
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