Erdogan’s election campaign in Germany: hate speech from Ankara

It’s an election campaign in Germany – and it’s uglier than before every federal election. Because it is about the power of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

When Burak Çopur clicked on the cell phone video from Neuss in North Rhine-Westphalia the week before last, he first saw the usual meeting folklore. Men are sitting at tables in a small hall, behind them a wall-covering Turkish flag, a speaker theatrically waves his index finger, he has come from Turkey especially for the election campaign in Germany: Mustafa Açıkgöz, MP from Erdoğan’s AKP party.

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