Chancellor Angel Merkel and Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan have traded barbs ahead of the German leader’s state visit today to Turkey.
Ahead of her first visit to Ankara in four years, Dr Merkel called on the three million Turkish nationals living in Germany to make a greater effort to integrate into their adoptive home.
Meanwhile, Mr Erdogan denied in an interview with Der Spiegel magazine that the 1915 massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire was genocide.
Despite close business and cultural ties, Dr Merkel’s visit is unlikely to take the edge off bilateral relations burdened by Turkey’s ambition to achieve full EU membership. [...]
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