Move over Özil, it’s Merkel next for smiling Erdoğan
The Turkish president is headed to Germany at a particularly delicate time.
By Matthew Karnitschnig
7/31/18, 4:00 AM CET
BERLIN — Germany is bracing for Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s next photo-op.
As the affair surrounding a photograph of the Turkish leader and German footballer Mesut Özil reignited a divisive debate over the place of ethnic Turks in German society, it emerged that the German government invited Erdoğan for a state visit in September to meet with Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
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