Head of Germany's SPD says Germany may give aid to Turkey - Polidicks

https://www.dw.com/en/spds-andrea-nahles-says-germany-may-give-aid-to-turkey/a-45139181?maca=en-rss-en-eu-2092-xml-atom The head of Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD), Andrea Nahles, has said there could be circumstances in which Germany would provide financial assistance to Turkey during its economic crisis. "A situation might arise where Germany needs to help Turkey, regardless of political tensions with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan," Nahles said in an interview published in German Funke media group newspapers on Sunday. "Turkey is a NATO partner who we cannot ignore. It is in everyone's interest that Turkey remains economically stable and that the current turbulence involving its currency can be stemmed," Nahles said Since the beginning of the year, the Turkish lira has dropped more than 35 percent against the US dollar. Nahles said Erdogan's planned visit to Germany in September was the correct move. "The federal government must remain in dialogue with Turkey at all levels," she said. "It is my clear expectation of the chancellor that, of course, critical issues will also be addressed. In particular, this includes the arrest and detention of German nationals in Turkey," she continued. Nahles' party colleague, the former German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel, has also voiced an urgent appeal to both Germany and Europe not to isolate Turkey. "In our own interest, we must do everything to keep Turkey in the West," Gabriel told newspapers from the Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND). Gabriel warned that Europe, and not the USA, would pay the price if Turkey were destabilized by sanctions imposed by Washington. He said the consequences could be economic disruption and an increase in the number of migrants and refugees coming from the country. He also prophesized that "nationalistic forces" in Turkey could "reach for the atom bomb, as in Iran and North Korea, to make themselves unassailable." According to a report from German news magazine Der Spiegel, Germany has urged Turkey to accept an International Monetary Fund aid program. The issue is said to have been discussed during a phone call between Germany's Federal Finance Minister Olaf Scholz and his Turkish counterpart Berat Albayrak last Thursday, Spiegel reported. But this could be made difficult due to tensions between Turkey and the US, which have escalated further over American pastor Andrew Brunson, who is under house arrest in Turkey. Brunson faces up to 35 years in jail if convicted of espionage and terror-related charges, but he maintains his innocence. The US imposed further sanctions on Turkey and placed sanctions on two leading Turkish ministers, accusing them of serious human rights abuses. Turkey has threatened to hit back with measures of its own. On Saturday, Erdogan said his country will stand strong against an "attempted economic coup" amid the tensions with the US. Speaking to thousands of supporters in Ankara, Erdogan said the country was being "threatened by the economy, sanctions, foreign currency, interest rates and inflation." "We tell them that we see their game and we challenge them," he said.

Fuck Turkey.

Turkey dug its own hole, and we shouldn't have to provide the ladder out.

Good, No any government (sadly except corrupted USA) should ever support ever increasing authoritarian state like them.

I thought Turkey's lira went deeper into the shitter due to Trump slapping tariffs on Turkey the moment their lira started to lose value. How does Trump kicking Turkey's economy bigger down the pit support Turkey? In any case, it sounds more like Nahles wanting to support Turkey purely to attempt sticking it to Trump, despite Turkey and Erdogan being the epitome of ''With allies like these, who even needs enemies?''

Fuck turkey, they wanted to go down that rabbit hole. Now they can deal with it.

Unsanitary

As much as we dislike it, is for the best. Even "if they deserve it", if Turkey goes down you can guarantee it will go worse, just like what happened with Russia during the 90s or south Europe during this never ending economic crysis. Gabriel warned that Europe, and not the USA, would pay the price if Turkey were destabilized by sanctions imposed by Washington. He said the consequences could be economic disruption and an increase in the number of migrants and refugees coming from the country. He also prophesized that "nationalistic forces" in Turkey could "reach for the atom bomb, as in Iran and North Korea, to make themselves unassailable. Last we need is someone worse than Erdogan that adds more problems to the EU. We must insist on calling their bullshit, but this is not the way. On Saturday, Erdogan said his country will stand strong against an "attempted economic coup" amid the tensions with the US. Speaking to thousands of supporters in Ankara, Erdogan said the country was being "threatened by the economy, sanctions, foreign currency, interest rates and inflation." "We tell them that we see their game and we challenge them," he said. He is already preparing himself to reinforce his position if this happen, and as we have seen a lot of times in the past ( especially with North Korea and Iran ), this is going to give us more problems in the future.

So maybe support the opposition party in Turkey instead of giving money to the fucking genocide machine that currently runs the country. "I just can't understand how all this bad shit keeps happening" says man as he continues shoving money into the "bad shit" vending machine.

Yeah, I'm sorry "my standards" are so insane, who am I to not think that genocide and war crimes are acceptable in the 21st century?

Turkey is not a monolithic singular entity. Turkish people are people. They shouldn't starve. If conditions come to that, foreign aid would be justified, in my view. This "us versus them" mentality is not very helpful. That being said, I hope that there is political change there (hopefully a move back towards democracy and away from Erdogan's authoritarian Islamism).

Apparently Turkey's the only fully renewable nation in the world- they get their electricity from the incredibly fast spinning that occurs in Ataturk's grave.

Erdogan called the entire german population Nazis. He has apparently gotten agents into muslim councils in Germany to push for radical changes Turkey has bought German tanks and equipment and used it against the Syrian kurds He only got voted again because he got the turkish population in our county to vote for him who fell for his lies Germany should never ever help them. It's unbelievable that they consider it.

Just the SPD being loyal to their project "sub 10% by 2021". Especially Nahles is a joke of a politician.