Erdogan to Face German Demands In Exchange for Economic Help
- If Turkey wants western aid, it should look to IMF: Hardt
- CDU lawmaker cites differences over rule of law, Syria war
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Germany is demanding policy changes by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan if he wants any help in stabilizing the economy, according to a party ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
“We have common interests concerning refugee policy, but we also have big differences,” Juergen Hardt, a senior member of the German parliament’s foreign affairs committee, said in a Bloomberg Television interview. Germany wants Turkey to respect media freedoms, release Germans jailed for political reasons and refrain from inflaming the war in Syria, he said.