If you follow German news over the past ten days....Mesut Özil, the Turkish soccer player....owns the front page of every single newspaper, and is probably one of the top three stories told nightly via ARD or ZDF public TV news.
Racism? That's the complete story. You could see this brewing back in the summer of 2016, when Erdogan's 'coup' episode came up and suddenly German professed to see Erdogan as some 'evil' character.
Since that period, Erdogan has gone to reshape the perception among Turks in Germany.....making them feel some national pride and a majority being pro-Erdogan. In turn, this angers Germans, and has created some aggravation....which hypes up Turks, and they state the obvious.....racism.
Something that Merkel needs to play into? How? That's the odd thing about this story. Özil gets into the middle of this by being pro-Erdogan. You can easily find dozens of prominent Turkish figures in Germany who are anti-Erdogan.
I'll go ahead and predict that this is still a major story as you come to mid-August.
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