President Greens threatened in Berlin

berlin - The party chairman of the German Green Cem Özdemir is the behavior of taxi drivers with a Turkish background in Berlin more than enough. He is constantly hostility and threatened by former nationalist compatriots when he gets in their car. Özdemir, according to the Berliner Zeitung, therefore, made his complaint in writing to the association of taxi companies in the capital.

Reason for the hateful approach Özdemir has his support for the Armenia resolution in the Bundestag. In this action by the Turks against the Armenians is a hundred years ago in the Ottoman Empire classified as genocide.

'It is alarming that it affects not only me but also other representatives of both Turkish and non-Turkish origin, or journalists like Can Dunda,' Özdemir said in the Berlin newspaper. 'I have absolutely no problem with expressions of opinion, but with threats, verbal abuse and aggression stops. '