A few days after the “Economist”, another magazine “burns” the Turkish president
A few days after the Economist’s op-ed article on Tayyip Erdogan, another publication blasts the president of Turkey.
As SKAI correspondent Manolis Kostidis reports from Istanbul, the German magazine “Stern” with its article characterizes Erdogan as an “arsonist”, stressing that “in order to stay in power, he causes conflicts within Turkey, in Syria and possibly in Germany. While he is talking to the West and Putin, he is underestimating NATO.”
At the same time, the magazine wonders if Erdogan “will accept his looming defeat in the elections”, implying that the Turkish president will try to stay in power in any way, even if he loses the elections.
Ankara canceled Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to Berlin
Meanwhile, the Turkish presidency canceled at the last minute Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to Germany and his meeting with Chancellor Olaf Solz, scheduled for tomorrow, Friday, following a disagreement between the two staffs, the RND network reported, citing sources in the Turkish government party.
According to the same information, the Turkish president was going to meet tomorrow with Olaf Solz in the chancellery. The visit, however, was never officially announced, as in the end the two sides – through the chancellor’s diplomatic adviser Jens Plettner and the Turkish president’s associate İbrahim Kalin – disagreed on the time of the meeting, but mainly on the issues the German side wanted to raise. – and even publicly. According to the RND, the chancellery wanted to publicly criticize the recent appearance of AKP MP Mustafa Atsikgiez in Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia, at a pre-election event at a mosque belonging to the “Grey Wolves” network.
The parliamentarian demanded from the floor the extermination of Kurds and Gulenists and provoked the intervention of Foreign Minister Analena Burbok: “If the Turkish representatives do not play by the rules, we will have to consider the consequences. Appearances like that of the Turkish MP in Neuss must not be repeated. Hate and hate speech have no place in Germany,” Ms Burbock wrote in a post on Twitter and recalled that “undoubtedly, foreign campaign events had to be approved”, while warning that “if the Turkish representatives do not follow their rules of the game, we have to consider the consequences.” Representatives of the Turkish embassy in Berlin were then summoned to the German Foreign Ministry for the same issue.
In addition, Mrs. Burbok, speaking the day before yesterday at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, again requested the release of the publisher Osman Kavala, stressing that “it is unacceptable for a member of the Council of Europe to arrest someone for political reasons.” From the same stage, the Minister of Foreign Affairs also referred to the case of the Kurdish HDP politician Selahattin Demirtas, as well as others for whom the European Court has ruled that they are illegally detained in Turkey.
As RND reports, Tayyip Erdogan’s plans to visit Berlin had led to speculation that he would use his presence for his election campaign. Assurances were given by AKP circles that the party would respect the ban issued by the German government as early as the 2017 elections, but it was requested that “the same ban should also apply to opposition parties, which are already campaigning in Germany.” In the 2018 parliamentary elections, more than 4 million eligible voters in Turkey lived abroad, almost half of them in Germany.
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