{"id":16688,"date":"2018-09-28T21:24:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T21:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16688"},"modified":"2018-09-28T21:24:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T21:24:07","slug":"can-turkey-and-germany-restore-their-broken-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16688","title":{"rendered":"Can Turkey and Germany restore their broken relationship?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"80.843035343\">\n<p>Turkey&#8217;s president is in the middle of a three-day state visit to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/germany.html\">Germany<\/a>, but the leaders of the two countries have not seen eye-to-eye on many issues recently.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a critically important tour for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/turkey.html\">Turkey<\/a> faces an economic crisis brought on by the crash of its currency, the lira, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel could be part of the solution.<\/p>\n<p><span>But behind the cordial greetings and joint news conferences, it&#8217;s been a rocky relationship for years. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The two leaders have traded barbs over everything from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/categories\/human_rights.html\">human rights<\/a> abuses to political campaigning and migration.<\/p>\n<p><span>But with three million Turks living in Germany, it&#8217;s always going to be a relationship that needs to work. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Presenter<\/strong>: Peter Dobbie <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Guests<\/strong>: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Thorsten Benner &#8211; co-founder and director of the Global Public Policy Institute <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sinan Baykent &#8211; columnist and political analyst <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Maurizio Zanardi &#8211; international economist at Lancaster University, UK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey&#8217;s president is in the middle of a three-day state visit to Germany, but the leaders of the two countries have not seen eye-to-eye on many issues recently. It&#8217;s a critically important tour for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as Turkey faces an economic crisis brought on by the crash of its currency, the lira, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}