Turkey Defiant as German Relations Slump to a Postwar Low
- German ‘reorientation’ warns companies off investing in Turkey
- Turkish minister says country will respond to ‘threats’
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Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said his country wouldn’t give in to threats, as relations with its NATO ally Germany slumped to their lowest since World War II.
Cavusoglu was responding to an announcement by German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel earlier Thursday of a “re-orientation” of German policy toward Turkey, in which he warned companies against doing business in the country and issued revised guidelines for travelers.