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Two More Germans Arrested in Turkey 'for Political Reasons'
[AnNahar] Two more German citizens have been tossed in the calaboose
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
 in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
 "for political reasons", Berlin said Friday, bringing the total number of German political prisoners in Ottoman Turkish custody to 12 amid badly frayed ties between the countries.

"On August 31, two German nationals were detained in Turkey for political reasons," foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Adebahr said, adding that the ministry was trying to provide consular assistance.

The consulate in the western city of Izmir was first informed of the arrests. Confirmation then came not from the Ottoman Turkish government but from Antalya airport police, Adebahr said.

She declined to give further details about the case, saying only that German authorities had so far not been allowed access to the pair.

"Our demands to Turkey are very clear," said Chancellor Angela Merkel
...current chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom...
's front man Steffen Seibert. "We expect Turkey to release the German nationals who were arrested on unjustifiable grounds."

Of the 55 Germans currently detained in Turkey, 12 of them -- including four with dual German-Ottoman Turkish citizenship -- are being held for political reasons, the foreign ministry said.

Relations between the two NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure....
 allies have plunged after Berlin sharply criticized Ankara over the crackdown that followed last year's failed coup.

Among those arrested is Ottoman Turkish-German journalist Deniz Yucel, the Istanbul correspondent of the Die Welt daily, who has now spent 200 days in Ottoman Turkish custody ahead of trial on terror charges.

German journalist Mesale Tolu has been held on similar charges since May, while human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty...
 activist Peter Steudtner was arrested in a July raid.

Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
 for his part has charged Germany is sheltering plotters, Kurdish bully boyz and bandidos murderous Moslems and demanded their extradition.

Erdogan added to the tensions this month when he urged ethnic Turks in Germany to vote in September 24 elections against Merkel's conservatives and their coalition partners the Social Democrats.

The escalating tensions have split the Ottoman Turkish community in Europe's top economy, the largest diaspora abroad, which is a legacy of Germany's "guest worker" program of the 1960s and 70s.
Posted by: trailing wife 2017-09-02
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