The sentencing of activist Osman Kavala to life imprisonment without suspension in the Gezi Park case has sparked a diplomatic crisis between Ankara and Berlin.
Turkish Ambassador to Berlin Ahmet Basar Sen , where he was protested against the decision. After that, Ankara reciprocated the equal.
German Ambassador to Ankara Jürgen Schultz was summoned to the Turkish Foreign Ministry yesterday afternoon and was protested by Deputy Foreign Minister Farouk Kaimakci. According to Reuters sources, Kaimaktzi told the German ambassador that the Turkish ambassador's summons to Berlin for a case that took place in Turkey “is a violation of diplomatic rules and that this case has been politicized.”
Sources in Ankara said that “Kaimakci also said that the decision taken by the independent Turkish judiciary was unquestionable and stressed that Germany's move was an interference in Turkey's internal affairs.”
On the other hand, the Turkish minister Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag also reacted strongly to Germany's move in a Twitter post.
“The summoning of our ambassador in Berlin to the German Foreign Ministry regarding a case that is unfolding in our country, is a pure attempt to interfere in the internal affairs of Turkey. “No country, including Germany, has the right to interfere in Turkey's internal affairs,” he said.
Citing some racist attacks in Germany as an example, Bozdag noted that “the whole world is witnessing how Germany violated the law in cases where the perpetrators of many massacres, such as the Kraichtal fire and the Backnang fire, the Solingen tragedy, were tried. the Ludwigswafen fire, the racist terrorist attack in Hanau and the NSU case. “Germany should look at itself in the mirror,” said the Turkish Justice Minister, adding that “Turkey is a fully democratic country. The Turkish judiciary, which makes decisions on behalf of the Turkish nation, is completely independent. “Turkish judges make their decisions in accordance with their conscience, in accordance with the constitution and the laws,” he said.
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“Ambassador Schultz has been told that we condemn our Ambassador's call to the Foreign Ministry in Berlin for a case that is unfolding in our country, considering that it is against diplomatic practices, and that this case is politicized by coming to the fore. It was also pointed out to Ambassador Schultz that the verdict handed down by the independent Turkish judiciary can not be challenged by any institution, authority or country, that Turkey is a state governed by the rule of law and its international obligations, and that efforts to intervene in Turkish justice and politics are to be rejected. The (German) Ambassador was also reminded of the principle of the Vienna Convention on Non-Interference in Home Affairs. “
Osman Kavala and Kavala must be released.
