It is an election campaign in Turkey and the city of Nuremberg is supporting the Sultan of the Bosporus with great commitment. Erdogan election posters now hang in several migrant neighbourhoods (photo above). Smiling with his hand on his heart, the ruler is canvassing for the votes of his subjects using Turkish language. A bit of indignation is being expressed, but the city has officially approved the Turkish election campaign on German soil. A temporary measure? The posters are said to have been taken down again in the meantime.
1.5 million Turks entitled to vote populate Germany and they are supposed to vote for the “right” man. The incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan (69) wants to convince them once again with the slogan “Doğru Zaman, Doğru Adam”, which means “The right time, the right man”.
Nuremberg shows heart for the president, who has been in power since 2014, and approves “due to the election campaign, 25 posters outside the old town as part of a special use from April 22 to May 5”. And so the Turkish ruler beamed down on passers-by in several parts of Nuremberg, including St. Peter, where many people with a so-called Turkish migration background live. Travellers could feel like they were on holiday – posters of Erdogan’s AKP party were also hanging in the immediate vicinity of the main railway station.
A brief trial balloon – according to Cemal Bozoglu (62), a Green member of the Bavarian parliament, the AKP posters were taken down during Sunday. It is unclear whether the city has withdrawn its permission.
There are enormously strict regulations for domestic elections in Germany, but this apparently does not apply to foreign election campaigns in Nuremberg. For ex-Green spokesman Volker Beck, the writing is on the wall. He asks indignantly on Twitter: “Who allows this?” and reminds us of the promise made by the German Interior Minister in 2017 that there would be no such thing.
https://journalistenwatch.com/2023/05/01/tuerken-kolonie-nuernberg-haengt-erdogan-wahlplakate-auf/