The opportunity for. Starts october third on t w. This is the news live from berlin turkish president so you bear the wraps up his trip to germany with a visit to the western german cologne where he inaugurated a giant. Opponents and supporters staged drive all demonstrations ahead of his visit to go live for another. Quake and tsunami leave hundreds dead in indonesia after barrel into the island of snow with officials there are warning the final death toll could be much higher well get the latest
from our correspondent. Turkish president. Wrapping up a controversial state visit to germany today the visit was meant to ease tensions between berlin and corrupt but its been mocked by their differences of a human rights a short while ago on inaugurated a giant new mosque in the western city of cologne in his speech he said it had been a very successful visit in a very critical period but he also had pointed words for his host saying germany needed to do more to tackle racism and islamophob
a huge debate in turkey as well and has championed a discussion or a narrative so to say against what it sees as growing islam phobia in europe so this is something that mr atwan and other church officials would also always bring up there is growing sin a phobia islamophobia in europe and in germany and he also said that that germany needs to act more decisively against kurdish militants of the p.k. k. group which is considered a terrorist organization not only by turkey but by the european union still by germany and by the united states as well and he also asked for more action when it comes to supporters of the so-called glenmore movement this is a group turkey considers the terrorist organization germany doesn t officially consider it a terrorist organization but missed out on the german government to classify this group as a terrorist organization as well chancellor merkel said well we are taking your
invite and that it was overall a successful visit it helped intensify german turkish relations and the friendship he said they were talking about important issues the talks were open and sincere so he was trying to sell this visit from his point of view as a success but as you already mentioned he also used the opportunity to put out some critical issues he said for example that germany needs to do more when it comes to siena phobia islamophobia he brought up the issue of miss wood again a player with turkish roots a very famous player who quit the german national team after the world cup did back row after there was a lot of discussion and missed it is for example said you know when i score i m considered to be a german but if i m not playing that well i m suddenly a turkey. and this whole miss what is it a debate was