Diplomatic relations between Turkey, Germany get worse

In an interview in the newspaper “Bild”, Germany's Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble became the last politician to set fire to worsening relations between Ankara and Berlin.

“Turkey has begun arresting people who disagree with the Turkish government arbitraryly and do not keep minimum standards for consulates and do not keep minimum standards for consulates (having access to prisoners' data)” Schäuble said. “Reminds me of how things went back to the GDR. People traveling there said: If anything happens to you, no one can help you”, the German minister stated in other words.

Schäuble's conclusion came a day after Germany changed its advice on how it travels for Turkey to warn German citizens of <x0-cyrrest” that it was reported to them about going to that country. The move was part of a <x2 quarnging” general versus Turkey's policy, which had arrested German activists and human rights activists, reports “Deutsche Welle”, the Periscopi broadcast.

If Turkey doesn't stop this little game, we'll have to show our people: “You travel to Turkey to endanger yourself, and our advice is that, we can't offer you any guarantees”, Schäuble added.

Turkey is a major tourist destination for German vacationers, and Berlin hopes that by threatening their citizens not to visit the Turkish state, it will affect the loss of the Turkish government's income, and will also be a great pressure to free German citizens.

But German Bundestag deputy chairman Claudia Roth, who represents the Green Party, said she will go to Turkey this summer.

Turkey is not only Erdogan, so I decided not to allow myself to prevent the visits of my Turkish friends”, Roth said./Periscopi/