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Vladimir Putin meets with Angela Merkel (Twitter)

August 19th, 2018 - 09:35 GMT

Putin Meets Merkel in Berlin to Cement Business Ties Like Gas Pipeline

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel Saturday in Germany to discuss a Russian-German gas pipeline and other heated topics.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called the Dutch government "fascists" and "Nazi remnants" for blocking the rallies.(File/AFP)

March 13th, 2017 - 03:00 GMT

Six detained as pro-Turkey demonstrations turn violent

Supporters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wave Turkish flags. (AFP/File)

March 7th, 2017 - 06:00 GMT

Netherlands and Austria take Germany’s side in latest diplomatic spat with Turkey

German comedian Jan Boehmermann in Berlin. (AFP/Jörg Carstensen)

October 5th, 2016 - 06:00 GMT

Investigation into German comedian who insulted Erdogan on live TV dropped

Hassan Nazeri, from central Afghanistan, is an assistant professor of film. He now lives in Germany. He had to lie to Greek coastguards that he was Tibetan to avoid being pushed back to Turkey. (Twitter/Fight for Life)

August 29th, 2016 - 07:27 GMT

Afghans: Second-class refugees

A Syrian man holds his child as he gets off the train in Munich, Germany. (AFP/File)

August 24th, 2016 - 07:38 GMT

An insight into the Arabs of Berlin

Supporters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attend a rally in Cologne, on July 31, 2016. (AFP/Henning Kaiser)

August 1st, 2016 - 09:00 GMT

Cologne rally draws 40,000 Erdogan supporters

German police shot dead a 17-year-old Afghan refugee Monday after he attacked train passengers with an axe and a knife. (AFP/File)

July 20th, 2016 - 04:00 GMT

Germany says axe attacker was ‘goaded’ by Daesh propaganda

Turkish anti-riot police officers block the street on June 4, 2016 as protesters shout slogans against Germany and hold placards reading "We do not do genocide" in front of the German consulate in Istanbul after the German parliament recognised as genocide the massacres of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire. (AFP/Ozan Kose)

June 27th, 2016 - 12:00 GMT

Turkey vows ‘measures’ against Germany over vote to recognize Armenian Genocide

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made a formal complaint to Germany after a German comedian recited a controversial poem mocking Erdogan on television. (AFP/File)

May 18th, 2016 - 09:00 GMT

German court partially bans ‘libelous’ poem about Turkey’s Erdogan

A refugee family receives presents as they arrived at the train station in Munich, southern Germany. (AFP/File)

May 15th, 2016 - 07:43 GMT

Germany’s refugee budget to exceed $100 billion by 2020

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan gestures during his speech with mukhtars or local village and town leaders at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, on May 4, 2016. (AFP/Adem Altan)

May 11th, 2016 - 07:00 GMT

Erdogan injunction against German publisher denied by Cologne court

The country's representative in Turkey includes a conspicuous warning to travellers on its website (AFP / Bulent Kilic)

April 18th, 2016 - 02:03 GMT

Germany advises against criticising the Turkish state