No basis for talks with Turkey after coup says German FM

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FM Steinbrenner
FM Steinbrenner
FM Steinmeier

… from  Press TV,  Tehran

The new Sultan is enjoying his post coup spotlight, but can it boomerang on him
The new Sultan is enjoying his post-coup spotlight, but can it boomerang on him?

[ Editor’s Note: To say the doo-doo has hit the fan between Turkey and Germany would be an understatement, but the untold story is how quiet so many of the UN members have been on the issue. Yes, Donald Tusk has made comments, but the EU members have mostly done a disappearing act.

Below you will see below that Steinmeier says Germany will not break the refugee deal that it signed onto, so that monkey is on Turkey’s back, i.e., to kill the deal by insisting on having the outstanding visa regime requirements waived at Sultan Erdogan’s demand.

I have a strong suspicion that Turkey wants those billions of Euros, as his party bosses have had a lock on the contract services being supplied to the refugees in country, and will not want to give up that gravy train. They have already lost most of their oil smuggling business, and there is little left to loot in Syria.



Improving relations with Russia will ease the economic crunch if Russian tourists flow back into Turkey in past numbers and the food sanctions expire. But Putin cannot flick the switch on that in a way to hurt the agricultural expansion by Russian producers, the capital investment they made at Putin’s call to make Russia more food self-sustaining.

Needless to say, Erdogan is going to milk this post-coup situation to his maximum benefit. We have to wait and see if something like Wikileaks, which can magically come up with treasure-trove, government deep file disclosures, has never revealed any of the goods on either Israel or Turkey. What’s up wid dat?… Jim W. Dean ]

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"Where will the flow go, if Erdogan says no?"
“Where will the refugee flow go, if Erdogan says no?”

– First published  …  August 05, 2016 –

The German foreign minister says Berlin-Ankara ties have become so strained after the failed military coup in Turkey that there is virtually “no basis” for negotiations between the two sides.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Thursday that the government in Berlin has serious concerns about mass arrests that have been carried out by Ankara after the thwarted coup on July 15.

“We are talking with each other like emissaries from two different planets. There is essentially no basis for understanding … no basis for discussions,” the top German diplomat said.

So far, tens of thousands have been sacked, suspended or detained as part of the government crackdown on the coup plotters and those linked to Fethullah Gulen, a US-based opposition cleric blamed by Ankara for the coup attempt.

In return, Turkey says Germany has not taken the coup attempt seriously. The Ankara government has also been angered by media reports in the European country suggesting the coup was actually orchestrated by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Steinmeier said, “We must be allowed to ask if mass arrests of tens of thousands of lawyers, judges, journalists, soldiers, closure of broadcast stations and shutdowns of newspaper – were carried out under the rule of law.”

He also said the reinstatement of the death penalty in Turkey would prevent its entry into the European Union.

The EU has harshly criticized Ankara’s post-coup crackdown as “unacceptable,” urging the Turkish government to respect the “rule of law” and “human rights.”

The German minister, however, warned that stopping negotiations with Ankara would eliminate any leverage Europeans have regarding the many thousands of people arrested in Turkey.

He was reacting to a demand by Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern for a halt in talks with Turkey.

The German official said Berlin is “trying to end the current situation, which is unsatisfactory but also dangerous, in which we are only communicating via megaphones, or microphones and cameras.”

Analysts say the EU-Turkey standoff could endanger a deal they signed in March on curbing the influx of refugees into Europe.

Steinmeier, however, stressed that Ankara and Berlin would continue to implement the refugee deal, under which Turkey has committed to taking back all the asylum seekers and refugees that used the Aegean Sea to illegally reach Greece.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has threatened to withdraw from the agreement.

Last year, over a million refugees entered Europe through Turkey and Greece and then made their way through the Balkans to Germany and other northern member states of the EU.

Europe is now concerned that the continent would face another refugee influx after Erdogan warned that Turkey would allow the refugees to enter Europe if it failed to meet its commitments.

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