Erdogan tricks the SPD and the Greens: first a double pass, then a new party. The new party DAVA is intended to unite voters of Turkish origin in Germany.
However, what Turkish President Erdogan actually has in mind with this fifth column is something different, comments Georg Anastasiadis. “An Erdogan offshoot running for elections here is the last thing we need,” says Green Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir, given the enormous centrifugal forces and the erosion of the center in the country.