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President Erdogan meets Merkel ahead of the G20 Summit

Türkiye Materials 4 September 2016 11:08 (UTC +04:00)
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel ahead of the G20 Summit in China
President Erdogan meets Merkel ahead of the G20 Summit

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel ahead of the G20 Summit in China, Daily Sabah newspaper reported.

The meeting comes after Merkel defused tensions between Berlin and Ankara over a parliamentary resolution passed in Berlin in May that declared the 1915 events as "genocide".

The German government said Friday that the resolution was not legally binding.

There was no indication whether Merkel and Erdogan discussed a Turkish ban on German visitors to Incirlik air base.

Turkish officials have blocked German political delegations from visiting the military base in response to the parliamentary resolution.

On Aug. 29, Foreign Minister Mevlut Сhavushoglu said that Turkey would authorize German parliamentarians to visit to the air base; however, Germany will need to take the necessary steps.

''We do not permit those who irresponsibly play around with our history to visit our exclusive zones,'' Сhavushoglu had said, in reference to a recent motion passed by the German parliament on the 1915 events.

Merkel and Erdogan also discussed cooperation on the refugee crisis and July's failed coup attempt in Turkey.

It was their first face-to-face meeting since the July 15 failed coup attempt. Merkel had spoken by telephone several times since then.

The 11th G20 summit, attended by the leaders of the world's 20 most industrialized countries, will be held in Hangzhou in Zhejiang province Sept. 4-5.

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