As of: January 29, 2024, 5:30 p.m
By: Georg Anastasiadis
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Merkur editor-in-chief Georg Anastasiadis comments on the re-foundation of the DAVA party and what Turkish President Erdogan actually has in mind with this fifth column in Germany.
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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.
Who hasn't yet, who wants to again?
After Aiwanger, Wagenknecht and Maaßen, Turkish President Erdogan is now trying to found a new party in Germany.
The new alliance, which is not coincidentally launched shortly before the European elections, is sweetly called the “Democratic Alliance for Diversity and Awakening,” or DAVA for short.
As “diverse” as the right-wing, religious Islamist parent party AKP?
Then good night.
Erdogan is actually interested in harnessing a fifth column for himself
“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.
He's right, but the insight comes too late.
Only recently did the traffic light government push through a law that will further increase the number of dual nationals of Turkish origin who are eligible to vote.
And SPD leader Esken's lamentation that we are "one people" and that we have to make that clear to people of Turkish origin is more likely to arise from the disappointment that the wooed voters, despite all their efforts, ultimately placed their cross not with the SPD, but with Erdogan should do.
After all, in the parallel worlds of German migrant neighborhoods, its propaganda flickers constantly across the screens.
Contrary to what he claims, Erdogan is not interested in more equality for his people.
It's about harnessing them as a fifth column and thereby gaining leverage in German domestic politics.
At least three of the 85 million people living in Germany have a Turkish migration background, and the majority of them reliably voted for Erdogan in Turkish parliamentary elections.
Such methods of controlling ethnic minorities from abroad are extremely dangerous for the internal stability of the host country.
Putin has been successfully practicing the principle “Russia is where Russians live” for years in the countries he is waging war against.
George Anastasiadis