It was a great interview last night on the ARD (German public TV) late news with Cacau (the former soccer player) who is the integrations chief of the German soccer league. Cacau went to say that that the leadership had taken some positive moves, but it'd screwed up as well....then turn to the Turkish-German player Mezut Özil situation....he also blamed Özil and the Turkish government to some degree.
It's hard to imagine that this situation has developed enough to be one of the top three topics on nightly news for at least ten days now.
You have a fair number of Turkish-Germans (some born and schooled here in Germany), who are big-time supporters of Erdogan and proud of the Turkish heritage. Germans are standing there in 'dismay', and shaking their heads because they've been hyped up over the past two years to be anti-Erdogan and to find any German supporting Erdogan fails their 'logic-test'.
The Erdogan use of the soccer story to hit on Germany? Almost daily, there's some statement being made and accusations of racism on Germany.
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