Merkel: Erdoğan invited to Germany after Turkey’s elections

May 29 2018 17:02:57

Merkel: Erdoğan invited to Germany after Turkey’s elections

SOLINGEN

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is awaiting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for a visit following Turkey’s presidential and general elections on June 24, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu told reporters on May 29.

“We are awaiting Mr. President after the election,” Çavuşoğlu quoted Merkel as saying in Germany’s Solingen during a meeting on the sidelines of the events to remember the victims of a murderous neo-Nazi arson attack 25 years ago.

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