{"id":348814,"date":"2018-02-18T13:21:15","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T12:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-right-wing-german-afd-member-under-fire-for-calling-turks-camel-drivers\/"},"modified":"2018-02-18T13:21:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T12:21:15","slug":"prison-planet-com-right-wing-german-afd-member-under-fire-for-calling-turks-camel-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-right-wing-german-afd-member-under-fire-for-calling-turks-camel-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Right-Wing German AFD Member Under Fire for Calling Turks \u2018Camel Drivers\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/europe\/201802161061721903-afd-party-turkish-community-lawsuit\/\"><strong>Sputnik<\/strong><\/a><br \/>February 16, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>The third-largest party in the German parliament after the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union, Alternative for Germany, has repeatedly hit the headlines with its anti-immigration messages.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Andre Poggenburg, head of <a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/europe\/201712041059692793-germany-afd-lawmaker-party-leadership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Alternative for\u00a0Germany<\/a> (AfD) party in\u00a0the state of\u00a0Saxony-Anhalt, is accused of\u00a0inciting racial hatred with\u00a0respect to\u00a0the Turkish community in\u00a0his country, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/germanys-turks-plan-to-sue-over-afd-politicians-camel-drivers-rant\/a-42608271\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Deutsche Welle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at\u00a0an Ash Wednesday get-together, Poggenburg specifically referred to\u00a0the 1915 massacre of\u00a0the Armenian population in\u00a0Ottoman Turkey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"marker-quote1\">\u201cThese caraway traders have the genocide of\u00a01.5 million Armenians weighing them down\u2026 and they want to\u00a0tell us something about\u00a0history and homeland? They\u2019re nuts. These camel drivers should go off\u00a0to where they belong: far, far beyond\u00a0the Bosphorus to\u00a0their mud huts and multiple wives,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Poggenburg also lambasted dual national German-Turkish citizens, describing them as \u201cfatherland-less riffraff\u201d who had no \u201chomeland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His remarks came after\u00a0the German-Turkish community\u2019s opposition to\u00a0the name of\u00a0a new Homeland (\u201cHeimat\u201d) Ministry, which was supported by\u00a0the AfD, the German parliament\u2019s largest party after <a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/europe\/201708271056833673-people-open-their-eyes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Christian Democratic Union<\/a> (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU).<\/p>\n<p>The formation of\u00a0the ministry is part a coalition deal between\u00a0Chancellor <a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/europe\/201710091058072081-germany-cdu-csu-agreement-refugees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Angela Merkel\u2019s CDU\/CSU bloc<\/a> and the Social Democrats, which was clinched on\u00a0February 7.<!-- [donotprint] --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ppani\">\n<li>A d v e r t i s e m e n t<\/li>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p><!-- [\/donotprint] --><\/p>\n<p>Gokay Sofuoglu, head of\u00a0the Turkish Community in\u00a0Germany, has meanwhile pledged a criminal complaint against\u00a0Poggenburg for\u00a0violating the German constitution, which bans incitement, discrimination and defamation.Poggenburg, for\u00a0his part, insisted that he was \u201ca bit inebriated, but\u00a0still in\u00a0control of\u00a0myself\u201d when talking \u201cpointed political satire\u201d during\u00a0the Ash&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/right-wing-german-afd-member-under-fire-for-calling-turks-camel-drivers.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SputnikFebruary 16, 2018 The third-largest party in the German parliament after the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union, Alternative for Germany, has repeatedly hit the headlines with its anti-immigration messages. Andre Poggenburg, head of the Alternative for\u00a0Germany (AfD) party in\u00a0the state of\u00a0Saxony-Anhalt, is accused of\u00a0inciting racial hatred with\u00a0respect to\u00a0the Turkish community in\u00a0his country, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-348814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}