The German Minister of the Interior is in Turkey with a heavy agenda – What will be discussed

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Nancy Fezer is making a two-day visit to Ankara from Monday. The focus is immigration and terrorism. On Wednesday in Berlin, Cypriot President Nikos Anastasiadis.

With immigration and German-Turkish cooperation to deal with terrorism on the agenda, the German Minister of the Interior will go to Turkey on Monday, specifically to Ankara, for a two-day visit Nancy Feather by the Social Democrats (SPD). The meeting she will have with her Turkish counterpart Suleiman Soylu is expected with particular interest, just a few days after the terrorist attack on the busy shopping street Istiklal in the center of Istanbul.

According to what was reported by a representative of the Ministry of the Interior at the government briefing, a central subject of discussion will also be immigration management, as well as Germany-Turkey cooperation in the field of immigration policy, in a year in which there is an increase in Germany of asylum seekers who have stayed in Turkey.

It is worth noting that a recent report by Deutsche Welle, based on data provided by the Federal Police, states that there has been an increase at the German border and the number of arrivals of refugees with Turkish citizenship, arriving via the Balkan route (more than 5,000 in the first nine months of 2022). However, the increase in traffickers who carry Turkish passports and are also found at the German border is also causing concern. According to the German police until September 2022 they had been identified 185 traffickers.

Nikos Anastasiadis will also be in Berlin next week

In today’s government briefing, the chancellery also announced the visit of Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades to the German capital next week.

On Wednesday, November 23, Chancellor Olaf Soltz is expected to welcome the President of the Republic of Cyprus with military honors at the chancellery, while a joint press conference is also expected in the late afternoon. It is currently known that the agenda will include bilateral and European issues, as well as security and energy policy issues at a critical international geopolitical juncture and in the shadow of Turkish threats in the southeast Mediterranean region.

DW – Dimitra Kyranoudis, Berlin

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