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| Austria Calls for EU-wide Ban on Turkish Campaign Events |
| 2017-03-06 |
| [ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Turkish politicians should be banned from political campaigning across the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern said Sunday. "A collective EU response to prevent such campaign events would make sense so that individual countries like Germany where appearances are forbidden don’t end up being pressured by ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ," Kern told German newspaper Welt am Sonntag. Ankara is wooing voters among Germany’s three-million-strong population of Turkish origin -- the largest outside Turkey -- to support expanding President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... ’s powers in an April 16 referendum. Several German towns prevented appearances by Erdogan’s ministers last week, citing security and safety concerns. The cancellations have angered the Turkish government, which accused Berlin of seeking to undermine its referendum campaign. Defying local authorities’ block on a referendum rally, economy minister Nihat Zeybekci is to speak Sunday at two private events organized by Turkish groups in Cologne ...a lovely city in Germany. They invented perfume there... and nearby Leverkusen. 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... on Saturday called Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim to smooth the troubled waters, and the two countries’ foreign ministers are set to meet later this week. Berlin would "certainly not end our criticism of developments in Turkey," German foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel said Sunday in a guest article for newspaper Bild am Sonntag. |
| Posted by:Fred |