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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What are Turks doing, voting in a German election?
Turks vs Germans......this is fun.
Maybe all the Turks wil vote for AfD
islam trash doing what islam filth does best.
The mask is beginning to come off of Erdogan. 666
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).
Hey, Bumdestag, how do you like those open borders now, baby?
Dual citizenship. Snort. A man cannot serve two masters.
Only the ones that have citizenship can vote. Most can’t.
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.
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