They’re grateful migrants who are happily assimilating and becoming Germans, right? Right?
“Turkish colony Nuremberg hangs Erdogan election posters,” translated from “Türken-Kolonie Nürnberg hängt Erdogan-Wahlplakate auf,” Journalisten Watch, May 1, 2023 (thanks to Medforth):
There is an election campaign in Turkey and the city of Nuremberg is supporting the Sultan of the Bosphorus with great commitment. Erdogan election posters are now hanging in several migrant districts. Smiling with his hand on his heart, the ruler courts his subordinates in Turkish. A bit of indignation boils up, but the city has officially approved the Turkish election campaign on German soil. A quick trial? The posters have since been taken down.
1.5 million Turks with voting rights populate Germany and they should vote for the “right” man. Incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan (69) wants to convince them once again with the saying “Doğru Zaman, Doğru Adam,” or in plain English: “The right time, the right man.”
Nuremberg shows love for the President, who has been in power since 2014, and approves “due to the election campaign, 25 posters outside the old town as part of a special use from April 22nd to May 5th.” And so the Turkish ruler beamed down on passers-by in several districts of Nuremberg, including in St. Peter, where many people with a so-called Turkish migration background live. Travelers could feel like they were on vacation – posters of the Erdogan party AKP are also hanging in the immediate vicinity of the main train station.
A short trial balloon – according to the Greens MP in the Bavarian state parliament, Cemal Bozoglu (62), the AKP posters were taken down over the course of Sunday. It is unclear whether the city has withdrawn its approval.
There are extremely strict conditions for domestic elections in Germany, but this does not apply to foreign election campaigns in Nuremberg. The hour has come for the ex-Green spokesman Volker Beck. He asks indignantly in the Twitter exchange: “Who allows something like that?” and recalls the promise made in 2017 by the German Minister of the Interior that there would be no such thing.
“Turkish election campaigns have no place on our streets,” public space is “made available for the posters of a declared enemy of enlightenment, minority rights and women’s rights,” says the human rights activist and lecturer at the Center for Religious Studies (CERES) and human rights activist Beck.
“The fact that the city of Nuremberg unilaterally allows 25 posters for the autocrat Erdogan and the AKP as part of a special use knocks the bottom out of the barrel. The Turkish election campaign has thus arrived on Germany’s streets. German politics must finally wake up: Erdogan and AKP are anti-democrats. Whoever supports them also poisons the political climate in Germany…Erdogan and the AKP are already using the mosques of DITIB and Milli Görüs all over the country as election campaign machines and are abusing their rights as religious communities for their political purposes,” says Volker Beck, who otherwise completely absconded after his drug scandal, using the opportunity to finally have something to say again.
Erdogan is said to be in a head-to-head race with his challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu (74), whose chances of winning are not bad, according to surveys. Erdogan is currently struggling with health problems and has already had to cancel a number of campaign dates. On May 14, the time will come: the more than one million Turks living abroad are allowed to vote on the president and parliament. In addition, 72 other countries worldwide are already opening the polling stations in the Turkish diplomatic missions on Thursday, according to the Turkish news agency Anadolu, with reference to figures from the Turkish election commission YSK. A total of 3.4 million Turks living abroad can make their crosses until May 9th. (MS)
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Maybe they are Kemalists who want Erdogan to have a Nuremburg trial? 😈