{"id":6668,"date":"2021-10-17T11:37:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T11:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=6668"},"modified":"2021-10-17T11:37:59","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T11:37:59","slug":"merkel-calls-on-erdogan-to-cooperate-in-dealing-with-the-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/10\/merkel-calls-on-erdogan-to-cooperate-in-dealing-with-the-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkel calls on Erdogan\u00a0to cooperate in dealing with the Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) \u2013 German chancellor Angela Merkel has called on the Turkey&#8217;s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u00a0to cooperate in dealing with the Taliban in Afghanistan to help prevent another refugee crisis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan, there have been\u00a0concerns that tens of thousands of people will flee\u00a0the war-ravaged country and try to enter Europe by\u00a0traversing through Turkey, reported DW.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0EU wants to pay Turkey\u00a0another \u20ac3 billion\u00a0($3.5 billion), which could be used to support Afghans escaping the Taliban. But\u00a0Erdogan has repeatedly emphasized that his country would not accept any more refugees.<\/p>\n<p>Merkel also called on the Turkish president\u00a0to cooperate in dealing with the Taliban in Afghanistan to help prevent another refugee crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan, there have been\u00a0concerns that tens of thousands of people will flee\u00a0the war-ravaged country and try to enter Europe by\u00a0traversing through Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0EU wants to pay Turkey\u00a0another \u20ac3 billion\u00a0($3.5 billion), which could be used to support Afghans escaping the Taliban. But\u00a0Erdogan has repeatedly emphasized that his country would not accept any more refugees.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey&#8217;s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he hopes to continue working well with the new German government during Chancellor Angela Merkel&#8217;s farewell visit to the country.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has wished the future German government well during talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel<\/p>\n<p>German Chancellor Angela Merkel\u00a0has met with\u00a0Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u00a0on a farewell visit to Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>In a joint press conference held after talks between the leaders, Erdogan said he hoped there would be a good working relationship with the future German government.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan said that Merkel had always maintained a &#8220;reasonable and solution-oriented approach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Turkish president said he wanted cooperation between the two countries to continue. &#8220;I wish any new government and its chancellor every success,&#8221; Erdogan said.<\/p>\n<p>German government spokesperson Steffen Seibert posted on Twitter that the leaders met in\u00a0the historic Tarabya district on the Bosphorus.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) \u2013 German chancellor Angela Merkel has called on the Turkey&#8217;s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u00a0to cooperate in dealing with the Taliban in Afghanistan to help prevent another refugee crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,5,8,4,6,7],"tags":[12,13,84,455],"class_list":["post-6668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-politics_","category-governance","category-news_","category-afghanistan","category-headline","tag-afghanistan","tag-taliban","tag-turkey","tag-germany"],"views":537,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}