A fair judgment in neo-Nazi trial will be message against racism: Turkish deputy PM

ANKARA - Anatolia News Agency

protester holds a placard written in English (R) and Turkish during a demonstration to commemorate the victims killed by the neo-Nazi group National Socialist Underground (NSU) during a demonstration at Berlin's Kreuzberg district May 6. REUTERS photo

A fair judgment in the neo-Nazi National Socialist Underground (NSU) cell’s trial in Germany would give a serious message to rising racism in Europe, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ said today.

“If a fair judgment is made and if the criminals get the deserved punishments, a serious message would appear against rising racist and discriminatory movements in Europe, primarily in Germany and other places,” Bozdağ told reporters at Parliament. 

“If the court’s ruling will be a ruling that satisfies justice sentiments, the Turkish people’s and the foreign communities’ mistrust of German institutions, which appeared the day those incidents appeared, would be re-established,” the deputy prime minister continued. 

The trial of a neo-Nazi, Beate Zschaepe, 38, suspected of involvement in the killings of 10 people between 2000 and 2007, most of them Turks, opened yesterday in Munich but adjourned until May 14.