{"id":1299,"date":"2023-11-18T12:16:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T12:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2023-11-18T18:22:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T18:22:12","slug":"erdogan-in-germany-to-seek-jets-and-trade-deals-in-awkward-ally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/erdogan-in-germany-to-seek-jets-and-trade-deals-in-awkward-ally\/","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan in Germany to seek jets and trade deals in awkward ally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turkish President, Tayyip Erdogan, arrived in Berlin for talks with German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, on Friday, with both of them hoping to find common ground on trade, migration and defence, despite views that are far apart on Israel and Moscow\u2019s invasion of Ukraine,\u00a0<i>Reuters<\/i>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the report, Erdogan\u2019s first visit since 2020, comes ahead of municipal elections at which he hopes to win back the cities of Ankara and Istanbul. Scholz\u2019s backing for better access to the European Union market and visa liberalisation would be a big gift to voters buffeted by high inflation and an economic crisis.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"rp__XCCRAsk\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Seeking jets and trade deals, Turkey&#039;s Erdogan visits awkward ally Germany\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rp__XCCRAsk?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A spokesperson for Scholz declined to speculate on how Germany would proceed with Erdogan\u2019s request to buy 40 Eurofighter Typhoon warplanes \u2013 a move that would need Scholz\u2019s support since Germany is part of the consortium that builds them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For Scholz, who heads a fractious three-way coalition that is dealing with a\u00a0court ruling\u00a0that blew a 60-billion-Euro hole in his budget and a row over the economy and rising immigration, Ankara\u2019s role in stemming migration to the EU makes it an indispensable partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish President, Tayyip Erdogan, arrived in Berlin for talks with German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, on Friday, with both of them hoping to find common ground on trade, migration and defence, despite views that are far apart on Israel and Moscow\u2019s invasion of Ukraine,\u00a0Reuters\u00a0reports. According to the report, Erdogan\u2019s first visit since 2020, comes ahead of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-europe-russia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1301,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions\/1301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}