THE Recep Tayyip Erdogan establishes a party – a branch of the AKP in Germanywith the aim of participating in European elections in Juneaccording to a newspaper report BILD and the political world of the country is already reacting.
As BILD reports, Recep Tayyip Erdogan's party in Germany will be named DAVA (“Democratic Alliance for Diversity and Awakening”) and its top four candidates are already known.
This is it, the doctor from Hamburg Mustafa Yoldaswho has been listed by the federal interior ministry as a supporter of Hamas and its affiliated organizations, also Dr. Ali Ihsan Unlu from Lower Saxony, a member of the local organization DITIB, which is under the direct control of the Turkish Religious Affairs agency, the lawyer Fatih Zingal from North Rhine-Westphalia, former member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), which he left in order to promote the AKP in Europe, and self-proclaimed human rights activist Taifiq Ezcanwho will probably also be the leader of DAVA.
According to the party's founding manifesto cited by the German newspaper, DAVA demands that people of foreign origin obtain full rights, pointing out that very often, “when looking for apartments or work, but also in many everyday situations, such as communicating with the authorities, they feel that they are not accepted as full members of European society”.
The party also aims to combat child poverty and the problems of old age by calling for additional social benefits and calls for “a pragmatic and non-ideological refugee policy”.
Fierce reactions from the political world of Germany
The first to react was the Turkish origin and staunch critic of Tayyip Erdogan, Federal Minister of Agricultural Economy Cem Etcdemir (Greens), commenting on the “X” platform: “An offshoot of Erdogan, who will run in the elections here is the last thing we need.”
On the SPD side, the co-chair Saskia Esken told WELT television that “it is important to make it clear to our fellow citizens of Turkish origin that Germany is united, that we are one people and that we will not allow forces like these far-right networks to come to power that want to deport immigrants, but neither and for the divisive tendencies of a Tayyip Erdogan to play a role here.”
The vice-president of the Parliamentary Group of the Christian Union (CDU/CSU) Gens Spahn warned in his post on “X” that “something like this would be another extreme party in our country”, while the CDU's head of internal policy matters Christophe de Vries he told Sunday's BILD that the federal government “must under no circumstances take the case of establishing such a party lightly.”
It is urgent that the security services closely monitor all the activities of this party and its connections with the Turkish government in order to intervene if Ankara exerts direct influence.
The lists of candidates for the European elections must be submitted by March 18.
In the European elections, there is no limit of 5%, as is the case in Germany, but anyway, as BILD points out such a party could appeal to a pool of around 5 million voters.
There are currently 2.5 million voting Muslims in Germany, and when the citizenship law is changed next April, about that many more will be added.
Source: News Beast
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