Freezing foreign assets belonging to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s family may be an option for Berlin as tensions between the two countries continues to grow, Roderich Kiesewetter, a politician from the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and spokesman of the Bundestag’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, stated, according to Sputnik Agency.
The politician noted in the interview that such a measure should be the product of a balanced decision of the European Union as a whole, and one that would work in the long-term.
“For example, I think that it is possible that we freeze the foreign assets of Edogan’s clan… We are freezing the assets of Russian oligarchs, but we do nothing in relation to Turkey,” Kiesewetter told, as quoted by the source.
The agency reminds, that last week, Erdogan called Merkel-led CDU, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Greens party “enemies of Turkey” and urged ethnic Turks to vote against them in the September 24 election. In response, the German government said that it expected other states to abstain from interfering in its internal affairs.