Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has urged Turkish voters living in Germany not to back the country’s three main political parties in next month’s general elections. He said they were “enemies of Turkey.”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday told Turks living in Germany they should punish mainstream German parties in September’s parliamentary elections.
“I am calling on all my countrymen in Germany to not make the mistake of supporting them,” he said, singling out Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union, the Social Democrats and the Greens as “enemies of Turkey.”
Instead he urged Turks to “support those political parties who are not enemies of Turkey,” calling it a “struggle of honor.”