NDR

At least three Turkish diplomats, reportedly including one military attache, are seeking asylum in Germany in the wake of the failed military coup in Turkey, believed to have been masterminded by the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), German media cited government sources as saying. 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized a video of a comedian reading a poem about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an on Germany's state broadcaster ZDF and called the text "insulting," during a phone call with Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu. 

German Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier said he expected Turkey as a "partner of the EU" to share the European values, as a response to Turkey summoning the German ambassador to Ankara over a video that ridiculed the Turkish president. 

An employee of Germany's foreign intelligence service is suspected of spying for Washington on a parliamentary panel probing US surveillance, media reports said Friday.
      
The federal prosecutor general confirmed that a 31-year-old German was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of acting for a foreign intelligence service, without specifying which one.