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by Stefan Frank • September 22,
2018 at 5:00 am
- Two German national
soccer team players of Turkish origin had a photo-op with
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and gave signed club
shirts as gifts to him. One of the shirts bore the message (in
Turkish): "With respect to my president. Yours faithfully".
- After the first exit
poll, thousands of Turks in German cities took to the streets,
honked car horns and waved Turkish and AKP flags, celebrating
Erdogan's election victory until well after midnight.
- "When do you
finally realize that the most important requirements for
integration are not language and upward mobility, but
emotional bonds and identifying with the country in which one
lives?" — Hamed Abdel-Samad, German-Egyptian political
scientist.
Ilkay
Gündoğan, who played for the German national soccer team in this
year's World Cup, posed for a photo-op with Turkish President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan shortly before the tournament. Gündoğan -- who holds
only German citizenship -- gave Erdogan a signed shirt bearing the
message (in Turkish): "With respect to my president. Yours
faithfully". (Photo by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images)
This summer, the German public began to realize that
there are hundreds of thousands of Germans of Turkish origin who
revere as their leader not German Chancellor Angela Merkel, but
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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