2023-11-17 21:33:45
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is visiting Germany today. There, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) emphasized Israel’s right to self-defense. “Israel’s right to exist is irrefutable for us,” said Scholz before his meeting with Erdogan. Israel has “the right under international law to defend itself.” At the same time, Germany is one of the largest supporters of humanitarian aid for the people in the Gaza Strip. The government is once morest all anti-Semitism in Germany and once morest the exclusion of the five million Muslims in the country.
Before the meeting, Erdogan reiterated his criticism of Israel. “We are talking regarding 13,000 children, women, old people who have been killed,” he said. In addition, there is almost no Gaza Strip left. “Everything has been razed to the ground.” Together with Germany, Turkey should work towards a ceasefire.
In Berlin, Erdogan indirectly recognized the Jewish state’s right to exist. What is needed is a two-state solution within the 1967 borders, he said. The goal must be that Israelis and Palestinians can “live side by side in peace.”
Reception at Steinmeier
Erdogan was previously received by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at Bellevue Palace. In his conversation with Erdogan, Steinmeier made the German position in the war in the Middle East “strongly clear,” as the German Federal President’s Office announced following the conversation. “The Federal President underlined the classification of Hamas’ attack on Israel as a terrorist attack and Hamas as a terrorist organization. He emphasized Israel’s right to exist and its right to self-defense.” Steinmeier was reacting to Erdogan’s sharp verbal attacks once morest Israel in connection with the war in the Middle East.
According to the Federal President’s Office, both heads of state agreed that all efforts must be directed toward helping to free the hostages and preventing the conflict from spreading regionally.
Erdogan’s first visit to Germany in three years is scheduled to end in the evening. According to the police, around 2,800 police officers were deployed in the German capital because of the Turkish Alex Reed. This had significantly increased the number in the short term.
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