Posted on 07/04/2017 7:06:48 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
The German government urged Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday to respect its request that he not address Turks living in Germany when he attends this week’s Hamburg summit of the world’s 20 largest economies.
Ties between Berlin and Ankara have soured over the past year due to disagreements on a range of political and security issues, including Turkey’s jailing of a German-Turkish journalist and its refusal to let German lawmakers visit German troops at a Turkish air base.
Erdogan was also infuriated by what he called “Nazi era tactics” when some local German authorities, citing security concerns, barred Turkish politicians from campaigning in Germany ahead of a referendum on expanding the president’s powers.
Last week Germany rejected a request from Ankara that Erdogan be allowed to address members of the 3 million-strong ethnic Turkish community living in Germany during the G20 summit.
In unusually strong language that underlined the poor state of relations, a German foreign ministry spokesman said even appearances by Erdogan at a Turkish consulate or via a video feed would “would be an affront to the clearly expressed will of the government and a violation of German sovereignty”.
“Appearances of this nature have to be requested well in advance,” Martin Schaefer told a news conference when asked about “rumours” that Erdogan might still address Germany’s Turks despite Berlin’s request.
He said Germany could not ban Erdogan from speaking at a Turkish consulate, but had options for influencing such actions.
Last week German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said he did not want to see Turkish domestic conflicts played out among the Turkish community in Germany – a reference to deep political divisions within Turkey.
After a series of arrogant, in poor taste, actions to the outside world, the word gets around.
Do you really believe that Iran and Russia are Turkey's friend? NATO has certainly cooled on him. Turkey's current form of government is totally unacceptable with membership in NATO.
How far will this slide?
Fearing an uprising, ja?
Shouldn’t have let so many Turks into your country, dumpkoffs!
Might be, but I really think they are tired of being insulted by Erdogan.
Of course the plan of Erdogan (& ME Oil) to make Europe subjects by controlling their source of oil. The Global Warming carbon tax scam was a way to have oil producing nations pay for the energy cost of countries who have little or none (like Europe). Collapse of that scam is dealing them a severe blow. I know of an European electrical power company that just turned in a 2 Billion dollar loss.
Germans Turks...both scum
Both have a history of wanting to rule their neighbors.
There are good people within both nations. Leadership? Very questionable motives. Both see power from the top as the way nations are to be run. Both have past rulers who created great human suffering.
Germany has always excelled at well engineered and ordered things. Not very human at the national level.
Turkey’s history makes you wonder how it ever accomplished anything on it’s own. Seems they (the rulers) did best when they practiced Genocide. Under Erdogan they have illustrated again how cruel they can be, even to their own.
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