Merkel urges Turks not to bring conflicts to Germany

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Source: Reuters

Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday urged people of Turkish origin living in Germany to take part in German society and not to bring conflicts taking place back in Turkey to Germany.

Relations between Berlin and Ankara, a key partner for the European Union in stemming the flow of migrants to Europe, are already tense after Germany's parliament branded the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces as genocide and a leaked government report alleged Turkey was a hub for Islamist groups.

Germany is home to about 3 million people of Turkish origin.

"I keep saying that I'm their chancellor too and I think it's important to profess that and it's good if that is reciprocated by commitment to our country and not by bringing conflicts from Turkey to Germany," Merkel said in an interview with public broadcaster ARD.

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EU nations must not to refuse Muslim migrants: Merkel

Berlin (AFP) - The refusal of some EU countries to accept Muslim refugees is "unacceptable", Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday as Germany called for quotas to divide the influx throughout the bloc.

"That's not right at all that some countries say: 'generally speaking, we don't want to have Muslims in our countries'," Merkel told German public television channel ARD. Backing the idea of a quota system for taking in migrants, the German leader stressed that "everyone must do their part," and that "a common solution must be found."

A common European migration policy is a highly controversial issue, which will be on the agenda of an EU summit next month, with eastern members the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia refusing to take in refugees under an EU-wide quota system championed by Berlin.

Slovak President Robert Fico has vowed he would "never bring even a single Muslim" into his country.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/eu-nations-must-not-refuse-muslim-migrants-merkel-183701980.htmlv

Europe migrant crisis: Germany expects 'up to 300,000' this year

Germany expects up to 300,000 migrants to arrive in the country this year, the head of its Federal Office for Migration and Refugees said.

Frank-Juergen Weise told the Bild am Sonntag paper that his office would struggle if more people came. But he said he was confident the number of new arrivals would remain within the estimate.

More than one million migrants from the Middle East, Afghanistan and Africa arrived in Germany last year.

The German interior ministry says more than 390,000 people applied for asylum in the first six months of this year, but it is not clear how many of these may have arrived in the country in 2015.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37207800

[DFW]

1. So far, Germany has been extremely lucky in that regard

There are Kurds and Turks everywhere here in Germany. Mostly they don't cause trouble. They know how good they have it compared to back home, and all but troublemakers brought here specifically for that purpose prefer to keep it that way. I know several Turkish Kurds who live here in Germany, and they want nothing to do with fighting--of anyone. A friendly "rozh bazh" goes a long way to getting a smile, and disarming most arguments before they start.

[DorothyG]

2. What does 'rozh bazh' mean?

Search engines aren't much help with that...

[Monk06]

3. How are you

[DFW]

5. How shocking

No Google translators for Kurdish yet? Shame on them!

It's just a common "good day" greeting, like "Guten Tag" in German or "iyi günler" in Turkish.

[DorothyG]

6. All I know is merhaba (turkish and arabic) and habibi (arabic) :)

[DFW]

7. Living in Germany, it's almost obligatoty to learn some basic Turkish

Sort of like learning a few phrases of Arabic in Belgium or France (or Spanish in Texas).
My nephew speaks passable Arabic, took it intensely in college, has spent several summers in Jordan and Tunisia (he has no French), but I never had the occasion to learn it.

[Unit 001]

9. None of my German family knows a word of Turkish.

And they don't have plans to learn any.

[NWCorona]

10. There's definitely some Americans on the Texas and Mexico border who have no desire to speak Spanish

[DFW]

11. They are under no obligation, of course

But in my town (near Düsseldorf), they're everywhere. They own food stands, are waiters in cafés, workers in carpentry businesses or gardeners etc. You want that extra special little bit of service? Just three or four words of greeting in Turkish gets me to the head of the line or the quickest service. It's just a small token acknowledgement of the fact that they exist. It's like knowing some Spanish back home in Texas. No one forces you to know any Spanish, but you're still an idiot if you don't learn at least some. Texas does have its share of idiots, of course.

[Rustyeye77]

4. You kidding Angela ?

Is that the best you can do?.. Offer suggestions?

Dumb

[mpcamb]

12. I'm a fan. Keep it civil. I think she's among the best Western leaders.

[Rustyeye77]

13. She WAS among the best Western leaders.

For some reason RAPE has exploded in Germany.

Any thoughts?

[AngryAmish]

8. Jeez is that stupid.

[Rustyeye77]

14. Wow

"Slovak President Robert Fico has vowed he would "never bring even a single Muslim" into his country. "

Is that racism ?

[Scorpionflyx]

15. Dumb

[Arazi]

16. How.about a sternly worded letter? That might "work" better