If you thought that the only heated political situation going on right now is the one in America, you are sadly mistaken. The media can be blamed for part of this. Fake news is spreading all over the world, one of the best example these days being Erdogan’s allegations against Germany.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s president, wanted his Minister of Economic Affairs to campaign for his party’s new reform in some German cities. However, the respective communities decided to cancel the minister’s public appearance. They did so for three reasons:
- The safety. People feared that the halls, in which the campaigning was planned, would be overcrowded, meaning that security would have needed to be increased.
- Money. German citizens weren’t willing to let their tax money go into safety measures unrelated to German citizens themselves.
- The new reform, which violates human rights, such as the death penalty. (If the reform will be enforced, however, Turkey will abolish a big part of the gradually-developed democracy in the country.)
Another reason could be the bad influence Erdogan would have on people young and old. He already has considerable influence in Turkey.
Because citizens with dual nationalities live in Germany, a person born and living in Germany with Turkish parents doesn’t have to choose between the German and Turkish nationality, they can have both. That means that if an election is taking place in Turkey, Germany-settled Turks are able to vote for parties even though they do not live there, an advantage Erdogan wanted to play on.
It also seems like Erdogan is someone who likes to play with Germany’s patience, for example. After Angela Merkel and Erdogan both signed the Refugee Agreement, he still wanted to divert the attention from serious inland issues, such as economy problems, to other countries, which in this case meant focusing on Germany. What he must have forgotten about is that a large part of Turkey’s economy depends on tourists. Many Germans used to spend their vacations in Turkey, which changed when Erdogan’s ideals changed. Erdogan needs to see the consequences his words are having on Turkey’s entire population, starting with a rise in unemployment. But that will probably be the smallest of the problems facing the country if Europe ends up cutting down the 4.45 billion euros the continent has put at Turkey’s disposal from 2014 until 2020, money which was intended to improve the democracy, the civil society, the rule of law and basic rights.
If this grave conflict doesn’t get solved as soon as possible, the effects won’t be pleasurable at all, especially with an involved who’s capable of enormous violence if wanted. And we all know what comes out if this is the case.
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