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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 433

Germany-Turkey relations

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (L) shake hands following a joint press conference after their meeting at the Dolmabahce Presidental Office in Istanbul on October 19, 2024. (Ozan KOSE / AFP)
October 19, 2024, 10:24 pm
Scholz, Erdogan clash over Mideast war as they progress on sale of fighter jets
German chancellor rejects Turkish leader’s claim Israel committing genocide in Gaza, asserts Jewish state has right to defend itself, calls for ceasefire-hostage deal
By AFP
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz talk to the media at a press conference at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Nov. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
November 17, 2023, 10:14 pm
In Berlin, Erdogan says Germany can’t criticize Israel because of the Holocaust
Leaders spar with each other over Israel-Hamas war; Scholz says terror group cannot be allowed to continue to attack Israel from Gaza
By Agencies
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz gives a press conference at the Chancellery in Berlin on November 14, 2023. (Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)
November 14, 2023, 4:15 pm
Days before meet, German leader casts as ‘absurd’ Erdogan’s claim Israel is ‘fascist’
Turkish president is slated to visit Berlin this week for the first time since 2020; Chancellor Scholz says Jerusalem is bound by international law and ‘acts accordingly’
By AFP
Illustrative: A police van in Munich, Germany on July 11, 2019. (Lino Mirgeler/dpa via AP)
January 6, 2020, 10:12 am
German police shoot dead knife-wielding attacker
Police won’t confirm that Turkish man shouted ‘Allah Akbar’ during assault in Gelsenkirchen, dismissing it as ‘rumors’
By AFP
Pro-Turkish Syrian fighters gather near the Turkish village of Akinci along the border with Syria on October 11, 2019. (Bakr ALKASEM / AFP)
October 12, 2019, 11:12 pm
France, Germany halt arms exports to Turkey as Arab League demands UN action
Thousands throughout Europe protest Turkish assault on Syria’s Kurds, while Ankara remains defiant
By Agencies
Protestors attend a demonstration called 'Erdogan not welcome' on the banks of the river Rhine in Cologne, prior to the visit of the Turkish President to Cologne, where he is to inaugurate one of Europe's largest mosques, on September 29, 2018. (AFP / SASCHA SCHUERMANN)
September 29, 2018, 4:15 pm
Rival rallies as Turkey’s Erdogan opens mega mosque in Cologne
German police deploy in force as demonstrations draw thousands of supporters and critics of visiting Turkish president
By Michelle Fitzpatrick
Firefighters lift a four-meter tall golden statue featuring Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to remove it on late August 28, 2018, in the western German town of Wiesbaden, where it had been placed on August 26 as part of the Biennale art festival. (AFP PHOTO / dpa / Sebastian Stenzel)
August 29, 2018, 2:30 pm
German city takes down golden Erdogan statue after outcry
Reminiscent of 2016 Netanyahu sculpture erected in Tel Aviv, artwork erected in Wiesbaden quickly defaced with insults
By AFP and ToI Staff
In this June 14, 2018, photo Mesut Ozil scratches his head during a training session of the German team at the 2018 soccer World Cup in Vatutinki near Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
July 23, 2018, 12:26 pm
Turkey hails player for quitting German national soccer team
Mesut Ozil, born in Germany to Turkish parents, had been under fire since posing for photo with Erdogan and was blamed for poor World Cup showing
By AFP
Germany's coach Joachim Loew (C) speaks with his players as he leads a training session in Vatutinki, near Moscow, on June 15, 2018 (AFP PHOTO / Patrik STOLLARZ)
June 16, 2018, 3:24 pm
Germans put up united front at World Cup after players’ Erdogan photo fracas
Two teammates of Turkish descent caused national controversy, drawing criticism from the far right after a fawning meeting with the Turkish president last month
By JAMES ELLINGWORTH
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Front) talks with Mevluede Genc (R) who lost two daughters, two granddaughters and a niece in the neo-Nazi arson attack in Solingen in 1993, alongside her husband Durmus (C) and her granddaughter Oezlem at the Bellevue palace in Berlin, on May 28, 2018. (AFP Photo/DPA/Steffen Kugler/Germany OUT)
May 29, 2018, 6:51 am
Tense Germany, Turkey mark deadly 1993 neo-Nazi attack
Merkel to attend ceremonies along with Turkish FM and Mevlude Genc, 75, who lost two daughters, two granddaughters and a niece in deadly house fire
By Frank Zeller
Illustrative image of a woman with a headscarf walking past the entrance to the Fatih Camii Mosque in Dresden, eastern Germany, where traces of smoke can be seen after a bomb attack, September 27, 2016. (Sebastian Kahnert/dpa/AFP)
March 13, 2018, 2:26 am
Arson attacks hit Turkish community centers, mosques in Germany
Ankara blames violence on Kurdish separatists protesting military offensive in northern Syria, summons German ambassador for ‘warning’
By AFP
Seyran Ates (r), founder of the Ibn-Rushd-Goethe-Mosque, preaches during the opening of the mosque in Berlin, Germany, on June 16, 2017. (AP/Michael Sohn)
February 16, 2018, 10:57 am
German Turks to sue far-right party over ‘camel drivers’ slur
Anti-immigration Alternative for Germany under pressure after lawmaker says Turkish minority should ‘go back to where they belong’
By Frank Zeller
Supporters of the Alternative for Germany party react after exit poll results were broadcast on public television at an election night event in Erfurt, eastern Germany, during the general election on September 24, 2017. (AFP Photo/dpa/Martin Schutt)
September 25, 2017, 5:47 pm
After ballot box success, far-right AfD riven by bitter infighting at the top
Within hours of its unprecedented election showing, co-chief Frauke Petry and four lawmakers in state parliament of Mecklenburg-Pomerania announce split from party
By Hui Min NEO
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gives a speech during a meeting of the ruling Justice and Development Party provincial heads at the AKP headquarters in Ankara on September 6, 2017. (AFP Photo/Adem Altan)
September 6, 2017, 6:04 pm
Erdogan compares Merkel’s comments on Turkey’s EU bid to ‘Nazism’
President urges ethnic Turks in Germany not to vote for ‘Turkey’s enemies’ after chancellor issued criticism during election debate
By Agencies
A picture of Turkish president Erdogan is framed by national flags during a demonstration in Cologne, Germany, Sunday, July 31, 2016. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
June 29, 2017, 4:46 pm
Berlin denies Erdogan permission to address German Turks
Germany’s FM says speech ‘would not be appropriate given the current adversarial situation with Turkey’
By AFP
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