Steffen Seibert

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit Turkey next week with representatives from the European Union, German government spokesperson Steffen Seibert said on April 15. 

Speaking to journalists, Seibert said European Council President Donald Tusk and European Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans will accompany Merkel during her visit on April 23. 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has no plans to travel to Turkey this week to inaugurate a new center for Syrian refugees, her spokesman said April 13, despite a previous announcement by Ankara.

A probe has been launched in Germany against a presenter on the ZDF TV station who allegedly "insulted" Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an in one of his recent programs, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on April 6.  

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. 

“Phone-tapping is not a normal practice for us” German Finance Minister’s Spokesperson Martin Jeager said during regular government news conference two days after Wikileaks revealed the conversation held between two heads of IMF, Poul Thomsen and and Delia Velculescu.

Despite the negative election results on ‘Super Sunday’ in 3 major German provinces by German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party, the CDU and the rise of the anti-immigrant right party AFD, the Chancellor’s spokesperson, Steffen Seibert said Monday the open immigration policy adopted by the German government would continue.

Germany's highest court is hearing March 1 a landmark request to ban a neo-Nazi fringe party, more than a decade after a first attempt failed.

The Federal Constitutional Court on March 1 opened three days of hearings on an application from parliament's upper house, which represents Germany's 16 state governments, for a ban on the National Democratic Party.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will pay a visit to the Turkish capital on Feb. 8, to meet with the prime minister, as the European Union struggles to cope with the more than one million Syrian refugees that have fled their country due to an ongoing civil war.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will travel to Ankara on Monday to meet with Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu as she tries to curb the migrant flow into Europe, international newswires have reported.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will pay a one-day working visit to Ankara on Feb. 8 to discuss ongoing efforts by Turkey and the European Union to stem the flow of irregular migrants into the EU.