Posted on 07/10/2017 4:53:48 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
Erdoğan has left Germany in a hurry right after the G-20 Summit in Hamburg. He was not allowed to attend any other event outside of the summit, an official ceremony wasn’t held for his departure and he didn’t participate in the G-20 family photograph.
Erdoğan has left Germany in a hurry right after the G-20 Summit in Hamburg. The Turkish President was not allowed to attend any other event outside of the summit, an official ceremony wasn’t held for his departure and he didn’t participate in the G-20 family photograph.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was greeted by “Welcome Dictator” signs in Hamburg where he attended the G-20 Leaders Summit on Friday and Saturday and he returned to Turkey immediately after the summit.
When the events they wanted to hold for Erdoğan’s visit in various cities throughout Germany were not given permits, the Turkish President wanted to visit the Turkish Consulate in Hamburg but German authorities did not allow that either. Erdoğan ended up going back and forth between his hotel and the expo center the summit was held in.
ERDOĞAN ADMITS TO BANS
Erdoğan held one last press conference the previous night before he returned to Turkey and spoke in anger about the German government. He said the German government didn’t allow him to hold indoor meetings and talked about the bans imposed on him:
“They couldn’t tolerate me holding indoor meetings. Those who don’t allow the President of the Republic of Turkey to speak in Germany can’t talk about freedom, no offense. This will return to hit them like a boomerang. They didn’t allow me to talk to my countrymen here via videoconferencing, let alone indoor meetings.”
DIDN’T PARTICIPATE IN THE FAMILY PHOTO
A family photograph was taken with the G-20 leaders and their spouses following the summit hosted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, but Erdoğan and his wife did not participate in it.
Erdoğan also chose not to attend the the classical music concert and the leaders dinner in the G-20 Summit. When the Erdoğans didn’t attend the Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 Concert, two seats in the front row were left emtpy. Erdoğan and the Turkish delegation spent that time in the hotel with strict security precautions.
MERKEL: TENSION WITH ERDOĞAN CONTINUES
In the press conference she held at the closing of the G-20 Leaders Summit, German Chancellor Angela Merkel also spoke of the ongoing tensions between Germany and the Erdoğan regime. Merkel said they held a one on one meeting by Erdoğan’s demand and said: “This meeting has made it clear that there are deep divides between us, and these are not differences that can be swept under the rug.”
Merkel gave the arrests in Turkey in the last year and the German MPs not being allowed to visit the İncirlik Base as examples and implied that the tensions may continue into the near future.
ERDOĞAN GONE, LEFT A LAW IN HIS WAKE
The Turkish President visited Germany for the first time since the April 16 referendum and left a new law in his wake - the “Erdoğan Act”. By early July, The Federal Government passed a law restricting rallies foreign leaders can hold in Germany. The law was dubbed the “Erdoğan Act” among the German populace and was passed just before the G-20 Summit.
Then the AKP supporters started to organize events for Erdoğan to attend in Turkish consulates in Germany. The events were planned for the anniversary of the July 15 coup attempt and as political shows for Erdoğan on Germany’s soil.
But Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Martin Schäfer said Erdoğan could only speak in Turkish consulates with permission from the Federal Government. Schäfer said the Turkish government has to appeal to the German Foreign Ministry beforehand and warned that their “government may decide to allow it after the appeal is assessed.”
Erdoğan had given his most recent speech as the President in May 2015 in Karlsruhe. In a July 2016 AKP rally in Cologne, Erdoğan was not allowed to connect via videoconferencing. When Germany didn’t give permission to AKP rallies in Germany before the April 16 referendum, Erdoğan had likened the German government to the Nazi regime and issued many more insults.
He must be thinking about the 2 million Turks who gathered in Istanbul. And is already having his troops attack Efrin in Syria, through the night last night.
This not end well, either for Erdogan or Turkey. That will be the choice. The dictator thinks he has neutralized the Kemalists? That is a mistake.
And the "movement" against Erdogan's dictatorship will grow participants.
Turkey/Syria Ping
Ruh-Roh. Me thinks another “coup and purge” on are the horizon...
Did his security detail attack anyone who may disagree with Erdogan?
Thug mooselimb that he is.
Remember 1/2 of the top officers are removed or are dead. (others in exile). But also consider that the Turk military is not anywhere near as effective without them.
Coup implies military. (has in the past)
But what you said has always been the action by Kemalists when the Islamists took power in Turkey.
Concensus here non FR seems to be that the Coup was in fact a Faux Coup designed by Erdogan to cement total control.
My gut tells me that Brennan helped him.
His security detail was not allowed at G20 in Germany.
That was my implication. I believe Erdogan concocted the 'coup' to purge his cabinet of more modern/western thinking individuals who did not want to see Turkey descend into the Hell of a Moslem Brotherhood.
Germany tells Erdogan’s bodyguards to stay away from Hamburg G20
http://www.dw.com/en/germany-tells-erdogans-bodyguards-to-stay-away-from-hamburg-g20/a-39409669
Explanation? I think the photo is an old file photo, not one from the G20.
Good. Kick him out for good. Turkey is not to be trusted. It had the opportunity to join the modern world, and it blew it. It opted for throwback savagery.
I’m surprised that Erogen and Merkle didn’t go out on a date.
Exactly. I often wonder what happened to Obama's MB. It is not discussed in the US Media.
That sweetheart relationship is over, finished.
It is still very hard for me to wrap my mind around the EU’s acceptance of the poison pill of immigration/infiltration.
It is close to that.
But let’s allow this to stew a while. Turkey itself may actually end this. Sadly, I don’t see a precedent. Not without the Kemalist Military.
Why didn’t all the Muslim savages now infesting Germany rally (riot) in support of their would-be Sultan?
Why didn’t Turks residing in Germany for generations show up in Hamburg to show their support?
But is he onboard with the paris accords. That is what really matters.
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