German Interior Minister Nancy Fesser is starting a two-day visit to Turkey today. In Ankara, she will hold talks with her Turkish counterpart Suleyman Soylu, among others, her services clarified. Her visit is recorded the next day of Turkish airstrikes against Kurdish organizations in northern Syria and northern Iraq and also a week after a bomb exploded on the Istiklal street in the heart of Istanbul, which left five dead and 81 injured.
Ankara blamed the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the People’s Protection Units (YPG) for the attack in Istanbul. The bombings launched by the Turkish armed forces in Syria and Iraq targeted their facilities. Both organizations categorically denied that they were involved in the action.
The Turkish government constantly accuses Berlin of showing excessive tolerance to the PKK, even though it has been designated a terrorist organization (also) in Germany.
Ahead of Mrs. Fezer’s trip, her services at the ministry noted that among the topics she will discuss in her contacts will be immigration and German-Turkish cooperation in the fight against terrorism, as reported by the German Agency and relayed by the Athens News Agency.
After the Nov. 13 attack, Mr. Soylu criticized the US, Turkey’s NATO partner, for supporting the Syrian Democratic Forces, a Kurdish-Arab alliance with the YPG as a key component, causing renewed tension in the bilateral relationship. The interior minister is among the members of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government who express the most hardline and nationalist positions.
Source: News Beast
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