German Press about Turkey, 25.6.2018
The day after the elections, German press starts campaign against Turks who vote for Erdogan and AKP:
FAZ:
“Turkey Election in Germany: Staggering” “The Erdogan enthusiasm among Turks in Germany is a declaration of bankruptcy. But that's immigration: the founding ideas of the Federal Republic are at stake.” “The approval of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Islamic-nationalist AKP among the Turks in Germany is devastating.” “Should German parties provide some small dictators so that Turkish immigrants can finally feel at home?” http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/dass-erodgan-in-deutschland-so-viele-fans-hat-ist-niederschmetternd-15658971.html
FAZ:
“Left MP Dağdelen: "Seed of the Erdogan network in Germany has risen" “
“Why is Turkish President Erdogan so popular with German Turks? Sevim Dağdelen, chairman of the German-Turkish parliamentary group in the Bundestag, sees a reason in the work of lobby organizations.” “Spiegel: Why is Erdogan so popular among the German Turks in Germany? Dagdelen: “Two reasons play a role. First, Erdogan and its governing AKP party have been supported by the German government for years, for example through arms exports and lavish financial aid. As a result, many Turkish nationals living in Germany see no problem in supporting a state president like Erdogan. In addition, the seed of the Erdogan network in Germany has been absorbed. The high approval for Erdogan is also the result of years of work of a network of different clubs, some of which are even supported by German taxpayers' money. This includes the German-Turkish Mosque Association (Ditib), which is controlled by Ankara. The Federal Government allows this network as far as possible. ... ... It is often underestimated how well and strategically the Erdogan network works in Germany. The Turkish government sends imams from Turkey to Germany to spread the Turkish ideology in Ditib institutions. All this is designed so that people do not integrate themselves into the societies in which they live, and not only in Germany. In the Netherlands, the Denk-Party now has three seats in Parliament. This is a party whose founding was initiated by the AKP.” ... I think its strange when German-Turks in Germany organize motorcraps for Erdogan. We must push back this völkisch (Nazi nationalist) ideology, also by taking a clear position. That is why it is the task of all of us to win these people to our society.” http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/sevim-da-delen-saat-des-erdogan-netzwerks-in-deutschland-ist-aufgegangen-15658430.html
******** Annotation: Sevim Dagdelen supports PKK - and is Chairwoman of the German-Turkish parliamentary group in the Bundestag(!):
---------- Frankfurtrt Rundschau:
“Electoral behavior of German Turks is a problem - There are many reasons why German Turks support Erdogan. “Kurdish community leader Ali Ertan Toprak said: "All Turks celebrating the establishment of a one-man regime on German roads show that they reject our liberal-democratic constitution." The green Turkey-expert Cem Özdemir criticized the Erdogan supporters. They had "not only celebrated in the motorcade, that their autocrat Erdogan is now even more autocrat", but also “expressed a bit of a rejection of liberal democracy," he said on Deutschlandfunk. Frankfurter Rundschau sees the following reasons why Erdogan got >60% of the votes in Germany: a) not all Turks in Germany did vote. b) "Kizilocak firstly points to the fact that migrant workers from rural turkish regions and non-educational strata had once come to Germany by majority. "They have their traditional values." c) “The conservative, turkish Erdogan supporters from Germany, when they do their holidays in Turkey, they do not see that the urban strata in Turkey are often critical of Erdogan.” d) “Gülay Kizilocak from the Center for Turkey Studies explains the lack of integration as a reason. "You still do not feel right," she explains. This results in "defiant reactions".
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ZEIT:
“Election victory of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan - The success of ideology” “Why did Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win these elections? Why does he get many votes in Germany? Because he makes his constituents feel powerful.“ https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2018-06/wahlsieg-recep-tayyip-erdogan-tuerkei-deutschtuerken-waehler
ZEIT Promotes Ince:
“Muharrem İnce: He is not finished yet“ “Strong against Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: Muharrem İnce has shown under unfair conditions where the Turkish opposition stands. He lost - but just started.” “İnce has held more than 100 speeches in Turkey. In metropolises like Izmir, Istanbul, Ankara millions came to his performances. They cheered because they saw a charismatic and aggressive candidate they no longer wanted out of despair, but because they were proud of him. Ince, who has been sitting in parliament since 2002 and comes from the small province of Yalova, has a sense for the people.” https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2018-06/muharrem-ince-tuerkei-recep-tayyip-erdogan-praesident-opposition --------------------
SZ:
“Özdemir criticizes Erdoğan supporters in Germany” Former Greens leader Cem Özdemir has sharply criticized the voting behavior of the Turks in Germany. "The celebrating German-Turkish Erdoğan supporters cheer not only to their autocrat, but at the same time express their rejection of our liberal democracy, like the AfD just", said the member of parliament on Twitter. Speaking to the dpa news agency, Özdemir acknowledged that the pro-Kurdish HDP has leapt over the ten-percent hurdle and is back in parliament. "Their good performance and the change over the past weeks show that many people in Turkey are fed up with Erdoğan's fear regime," said the Green Party politician. "If this campaign had been reasonably fair, Erdoğan would have had to give up." http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/oezdemir-kritisiert-erdoan-anhaenger-deutschland-1.4028628
SZ:
“Erdoğan's election victory - What's wrong with the German Turks?” “In the liberal state of law Germany, two-thirds voted in favor of Erdoğan, and thus for a man who is scrapping freedom in Turkey... People who were born in Bochum, Berlin or Hamburg or have spent at least a large part of their lives in Germany, cheer a man with a walrus mustache who can now continue to rule the distant Turkey.” http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/erdoans-wahlsieg-was-ist-los-mit-den-deutschtuerken-1.4028714
SZ:
“Elections in Turkey - This is how the German Turks voted” http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/wahlen-in-der-tuerkei-so-haben-die-deutschtuerken-gewaehlt-1.4028731
SZ:
“Elections in Turkey - "It is not over till the evening (”Its not the end”)"
“The people in Turkey were deeply divided even before the election. Now the losers may also feel betrayed. Will that deepen the gap? -- This is to be feared. Large parts of the population doubted before the election that it would run correctly - otherwise there would not have been such a big commitment to watch the elections and to ensure that the votings run correct. Something like this mobilization before a choice we have not experienced. ... Confidence in the state and the institutions that are supposed to be impartial will not increase now.“ ... “It depends on how the biggest opposition party, the CHP, is now developing. How she deals with her new star in political heaven, Muharrem İnce. Whether she confides the party chairmanship to him and signals that she is serious about the departure he is embodying.“ http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/wahlen-in-der-tuerkei-es-ist-noch-nicht-aller-tage-abend-1.4029236
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SPIEGEL:
SPIEGEL:
“German Turks to the Erdogan election - "I'm getting more and more angry"” VIDEO: http://www.spiegel.de/video/tuerkei-wahl-deutsch-tuerken-ueber-erdogans-sieg-video-99018641.html
SPIEGEL:
“Elections in Turkey - State of Erdogan” http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/tuerkei-wahl-2018-wie-recep-tayyip-erdogan-den-staat-umbaut-kommentar-a-1214732.html
SPIEGEL:
“Erdogan and Turkey - Poverty certificate for Europe” “Erdogan is after his election victory in Turkey as powerful as ever. In Europe, he is indeed criticized, especially countries like Germany will strengthen him anyway - because they depend on him.” http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/tuerkei-und-recep-tayyip-erdogan-armutszeugnis-fuer-europa-a-1214861.html
SPIEGEL:
“Video analysis to Erdogan victory - "He is a man of half of the turkish people"” http://www.spiegel.de/video/tuerkei-wahl-recep-tayyip-erdogan-gewinnt-video-99018632.html
SPIEGEL:
"You can only bow down to the many millions of people who, despite mass arrests and media propaganda, are still resisting and fighting for democracy and the rule of law in Turkey." ... “They will have a harder time from now on. That is why Europe should help them as much as possible. http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/tuerkei-wahl-2018-wie-recep-tayyip-erdogan-den-staat-umbaut-kommentar-a-1214732.html
WELT:
“Turkey-expert” Cem Özdemir about Erdogan-Fans in Germany: “We have to talk about a parallel society in Germany” https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/video178169664/Oezdemir-ueber-Erdogan-Fans-Wir-haben-Parallelgesellschaften-darueber-muss-man-reden.html?wtrid=onsite.onsitesearch ----------------------------- And this is the daily discussion about Islam in Germany:
WELT:
“The lack of principles of the Burkini-supporters” WELT-author Birgit Kelle: “Burkini: Is the trivialized word for “Condom for the whole body”“ https://www.welt.de/debatte/kommentare/plus178286762/Birgit-Kelle-Die-Prinzipienlosigkeit-der-Burkini-Befuerworter.html