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'Unprecedented interference' as Erdogan tells Turks in Germany not to vote for 'enemies of Turkey'
TheLocal.de ^ | 18 August 2017 14:55 CEST+02:00 | AFP

Posted on 08/18/2017 10:26:58 PM PDT by Olog-hai

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday called on Turks living in Germany not to vote for the two parties in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling grand coalition or the Greens in next month’s legislative elections, calling them “enemies of Turkey”.

Upping the stakes in an intensifying row with Berlin, Erdogan said ethnic Turks in Germany should not cast their ballots either for Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the Social Democratic Party (SPD) of Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel, or the Greens. “I tell all my kinsmen in Germany… not to vote for them. Neither the Christian Democrats nor the SPD nor the Greens. They are all enemies of Turkey,” Erdogan told reporters in Istanbul in televised comments.

German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel was quick to hit back at the Turkish leader. “That is an unprecedented act of interference in the sovereignty of our country,” Gabriel told the RedaktionsNetzwerk media group, adding: “Erdogan’s interference in Germany’s electoral campaign shows that he wants to incite people in Germany against each other.” …

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: erdogan; eussr; rop; turkey

1 posted on 08/18/2017 10:26:59 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

What are Turks doing, voting in a German election?


2 posted on 08/18/2017 10:37:16 PM PDT by Bogie
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To: Olog-hai

Turks vs Germans......this is fun.


3 posted on 08/18/2017 11:42:55 PM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.6l)
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To: Olog-hai

Maybe all the Turks wil vote for AfD


4 posted on 08/19/2017 12:34:41 AM PDT by Reverend Wright (The CBC: Deceiving Canadians since 1936.)
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To: Olog-hai

islam trash doing what islam filth does best.


5 posted on 08/19/2017 3:25:08 AM PDT by soycd
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To: Olog-hai

The mask is beginning to come off of Erdogan. 666


6 posted on 08/19/2017 3:57:02 AM PDT by Founding Father (The Pedophile moHAMmudd [PBUH---Pigblood be upon him]; Charles Martel for President)
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To: Bogie

Germany invited a huge number of Turkish immigrant workers to become citizens of Germany (after 8 years of residency IIRC). I believe the population is over 3 million with about half still maintaining dual citizenship (w/Turkey).


7 posted on 08/19/2017 4:44:59 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Olog-hai

Hey, Bumdestag, how do you like those open borders now, baby?


8 posted on 08/19/2017 4:55:14 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Dual citizenship. Snort. A man cannot serve two masters.


9 posted on 08/19/2017 4:56:00 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: Bogie

Only the ones that have citizenship can vote. Most can’t.


10 posted on 08/19/2017 9:26:46 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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To: mewzilla

You’re pissing up the wrong rope, so to speak. This is not an issue of borders, open or closed. Few Turks are in Germany illegally.


11 posted on 08/19/2017 9:29:21 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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