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A deal under the right terms he's willing to to respect the deal that is that is my lesson i draw from the migrant deal with turkey. this is i had to say because it's a prickly german web working at things that somehow people states and leaders of states are rational actors they're not look at putin look at trump. look at some of the things our own leadership has done look at greece i mean you know. look look at venezuela look at mr maduro. rationality does not impinge on politics especially not on autocrats therefore if turkey goes down the drain just turkey the this is will not mean the end ...

Colleague dennis eugen who was imprisoned on trumped up charges no pun intended accused of spying simply for doing his job and there are hundreds of others still in prison who don't have a german parliament passport as that is did and and and. you know i mean it's horrible but i still think. that we have to somehow at the same time is helping them economic helping turkey economically which important country mustn't break down and there's another reason for this when a country goes into economic downturns fire like in venezuela revolution doesn't happen that's when people are so busy scrambling...

Given that there is such a subset a large turkish community in germany which many very many people are aware of what would your take the question of course there is this extreme historic tie there are all these people with turkish original living here about three million people so of course it's a very very important partner in turkey and they're very important part so this is a window of opportunity where they where there could be a reset on turkish german relations. hopefully hopefully that's what i'm what i'm hoping for if if president are to one doesn't make interesting statements as he di...

That but at that time with the european union do they they they said ok we don't want turkish membership we'll give them a privileged partnership so this again drew turkey back and now at this point i think it's really really important that turkey doesn't feel itself left alone again as a so much mistrust between the two sides the. american who always made it clear that she opposes turkey. treats of the e.u. which was always viewed as an insult and at the same time. president had once ranting and raving about german german nazi procedures and attitudes which you do has done on a many occasions...

At this point in time is she getting it right or is she getting it wrong. well first there's there's a coming summit in turkey on syria they're going to be meeting there and then present on is going to be coming here before that the finance ministers are going to be again meeting and berlin so i think this is a process that's going to kind of allow the leaders to see and talk behind closed doors and a little bit look at how they can manage a deal probably self of course merkel doesn't want to give an open check to to add on that would be a long wrong thing to do definitely. getting the wrong e...