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Turkey summons German ambassador again Armenian Genocide,

September 19, 2017 By administrator

Turkey summoned Germany’s ambassador Martin Erdmann in Ankara on Monday. Official representative of the German foreign minister Martin Schaefer confirmed the reports. Der Spiegel magazine said Ankara wanted to raise a German parliamentary motion that recognized the Armenian Genocide, Reuters reported. Following adoption of the motion by Bundestag last year, Ankara recalled its ambassador from Berlin. Germany’s foreign ministry said it was the 17th time its envoy Martin Erdmann had been summoned. Last time the envoy was summoned on Saturday over rally in support of PKK that was staged in Cologne.

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Germany summons Turkish ambassador over activists’ arrests

July 19, 2017 By administrator

Germany summons Turkish ambassadorGermany’s Foreign Ministry has summoned Turkey’s ambassador to Berlin over the arrests of human rights activists, including German citizen Peter Steudtner. The Foreign Ministry issued a sharply worded statement.

The Foreign Ministry on Wednesday said it had summoned Turkey’s ambassador in Berlin to protest the pre-trial detention of six human rights activists, particularly that of German citizen Peter Steudtner.

“The Turkish government needs to immediately and directly hear the German government’s outrage and incomprehension as well as its crystal-clear expectations in the case of Peter Steudtner and, this time, without diplomatic niceties,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Schäfer said.

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Schäfer said German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel had interrupted his summer vacation to attend government consultations over the Turkish court’s decision to jail Steudtner, a human rights trainer who was taken into custody earlier this month.

German Foreign Ministry outraged

Steudtner was one of 10 people – including Amnesty’s Turkey director Idil Eser – who were detained in a July 5 police raid on a hotel on the island of Buyukada, off Istanbul, while participating in a workshop on digital safety. Four detainees were released on Tuesday morning, while the other six were jailed ahead of a trial. The six are accused of aiding an armed terror group. Under Turkey’s anti-terror laws, pre-trial detention can last up to five years.

Spokesman Schäfer said the point had been clearly made to the ambassador that Germany considered the activists’ arrests to have been both unacceptable and incomprehensible, and that Berlin wanted Steudtner released immediately.

“He now knows that we are serious about it,” said Schäfer.

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‘Absolutely unjustified’

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday condemned the decision to detain Steudtner ahead of his trial, saying it was “absolutely unjustified.”

“We declare our solidarity with him and all the others arrested … the German government will do all it can, on all levels, to secure his release,” she said.

The foreign ministry had issued a separate statement calling for the rapid release of the six activists.

“Linking a fighter and spokesman for human rights and democracy like Peter Steudtner to supporters of terrorists is absurd,” the statement said.

Rocky relations

Relations between Turkey and Germany, home to some three million people of Turkish origin, have nosedived since last year’s failed coup attempt and the subsequent deterioration of the rule of law in the country under an official state of emergency. Thousands of arrests have been made and tens of thousands of public officials, including teachers and doctors, have been sacked from the jobs as part of an ongoing purge on dissident voices.

About 150 journalists all also among those who have been jailed since the July 15, 2016 failed coup, including one German-Turkish dual national, Die Welt reporter Deniz Yücel. Yücel was arrested in February and accused of spreading “terrorist propaganda” and “inciting hatred.”

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