"Berlin contacts Ankara over consul controversy
Posted : Thu, 07 May 2009 18:05:50 GMT
Author : DPA
Berlin - Berlin has spoken to Ankara about controversial reported remarks by a Turkish consul, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday in Berlin, without disclosing what Germany asked for. There has been outrage in Germany at reports that Consul General Hakan Kivanc, who is based in Dusseldorf, claimed that Germans 'would like to tattoo the letter T' into the skins of immigrant Turks and 'do the same to them as was done to Jews under the Nazis.'"
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