The German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel and his Turkish counterpart Cavusoglu have assured each other Saturday that they will do everything to tighten the ties between Berlin and Ankara. The relations had been acidified in recent years by a series of collisions.
The Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mevlüt Cavusoglu, will visit his German colleague Sigmar Gabriel on Saturday. Ankara confirmed on Wednesday that Cavusoglu is coming to the home of Gabriel, the Lower Saxon city of Goslar, this weekend. Gabriel visited Cavusoglu in November in the constituency where the Turkish politician has his base.
The Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Cavusoglu wants to visit his German colleague this month. And he expects a 'much better year 2018.' External relations of the Turkish government, under the leadership of the increasingly authoritarian president Erdogan, have suffered considerable damage during the past year, including relations with Germany and the Netherlands.
Day-long rainfall is causing ever-increasing problems in the eastern part of Germany. In the states of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia and, to a lesser extent, Brandenburg and Bavaria, there is water pollution. A woman is missing.
