Faeser on an explosive trip to Turkey - Erdogan's minister is about "fighting terrorism"

Created: 11/20/2022, 8:42 p.m

Interior Minister Nancy Faeser will visit Turkey on Monday.

There she meets Erdogan's counterpart Soylu.

There is no shortage of hot topics to talk about.

Berlin – Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) is leaving for a two-day visit to Turkey on Monday (November 21).

As the ministry announced in advance, talks about migration and German-Turkish cooperation in combating terrorism are on the tableau.

Faeser in Turkey: talks with counterpart Soylu - it's about "counterterrorism"

According to the ministry, Faeser is to meet her Turkish counterpart Süleyman Soylu in Ankara.

The interior minister is considered a nationalist hardliner in President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's cabinet.

Faeser's visit comes a week after the November 13, 2022 attack in Istanbul that killed six people.

Turkey blames the PKK and the Syrian Kurdish militia YPG for this.

Turkish airstrikes on Kurdish militia positions in northern Iraq and northern Syria followed on Sunday (November 20).

Turkey and Kurdistan: Erdogan's minister recently accused the USA of putting pressure on Sweden

Soylu caused a stir by blaming the US for the attack.

Turkey has repeatedly accused Germany of taking too lax action against the PKK, which is also considered a terrorist organization in this country.

Meanwhile, Turkey is also using Sweden's planned NATO membership to put the country under pressure - Ankara is demanding, among other things, the extradition of suspected "terrorists" and an end to Sweden's cooperation with the Syrian-Kurdish militia YPG.

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