Turkey wants to ban German track

The involvement of Ankara with foreign art, the press and freedom of expression is increasing.

The piece Aghet staged in Dresden by the local symphony orchestra with Turkish, Armenian and German musicians and funded by the European Union 200 000. The title of the piece means in Armenian 'catastrophe', as the Shoah in Hebrew refers to the Holocaust. Turkish law barrel referring to genocide by Turkey as an insult to their own country.

Because this play is threatening the Turkish ambassador even breaking off the negotiations with the European Union on the accession of Ankara. A revision of the EU treaty with Turkey on the readmission of refugees is under discussion. A planned action Aghet was canceled in Istanbul.

Turkey now demands from Brussels that theater ceases to put that the subsidy is withdrawn and that the performance of director Markus Rindt is mentioned nowhere. Brussels was the last requirement. 'That's a massive attack on the freedom of expression. And an insult to the victims and their descendants, 'says director Rindt.