{"id":300285,"date":"2017-03-23T10:59:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T09:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/german-chancellor-angela-merkel-threatens-turkey\/"},"modified":"2017-03-23T10:59:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T09:59:06","slug":"german-chancellor-angela-merkel-threatens-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/german-chancellor-angela-merkel-threatens-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"German Chancellor Angela Merkel threatens Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>German Chancellor Angela Merkel threatens Turkey<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Johannes Stern<br \/>\n    <br \/>23 March 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>German-Turkish relations have reached a new low point after the Berlin government threatened to impose a ban on public appearances by Turkish politicians in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>At the opening of the CEBIT industry fair in Hannover, German Chancellor Angela Merkel demanded \u201cthat the Nazi comparisons from the Turkish side must stop \u2026 without any ifs or buts.\u201d Germany would \u201cnot tolerate that the end justifies the means and all taboos are ignored.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Merkel then cited a so-called verbal memo from Germany\u2019s Foreign Ministry to Ankara. In it Turkey had \u201cbeen unambiguously informed that public appearances of Turkish politicians in Germany can only take place if they occur on the basis of the principles in the Basic Law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The memo made the ability of the 1.4 million Turkish citizens living in Germany to vote on the Turkish constitutional referendum on Monday conditional upon the establishment of \u201creliable and constructive cooperation from the Turkish side on the preparations for, and conducting of the vote, particularly in affairs related to public security and order.\u201d This applied especially to campaign appearances by Turkish politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey\u2019s governing AKP responded to the threat to withdraw permission to hold the election in Germany by cancelling all planned appearances by Turkish ministers in the country. This was welcomed enthusiastically by German politicians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the current point in time I see this as a sign of reason,\u201d Social Democratic Party (SPD) leader and chancellor candidate Martin Schulz said on Tuesday in parliament at a meeting of his party\u2019s parliamentary group. SPD parliamentary group chair Thomas Opperman expressed his \u201crelief that Turkey no longer intends to send&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/03\/23\/merk-m23.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 German Chancellor Angela Merkel threatens Turkey By Johannes Stern 23 March 2017 German-Turkish relations have reached a new low point after the Berlin government threatened to impose a ban on public appearances by Turkish politicians in Germany. At the opening of the CEBIT industry fair in Hannover, German Chancellor Angela Merkel demanded \u201cthat the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-300285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}