The German program of the Turkish state television channel TRT also regularly broadcasts reports on the German election. The pro-Ankara migrant party "Alliance for Innovation and Justice", which is not running in the German election, has also recommended that people should vote for "Team Todenhöfer." In the early stages of the campaign, Erdogan supporters looked around and found what they were seeking: "Team Todenhöfer - The Justice Party," founded by the controversial former CDU politician Jürgen Todenhöfer. Now 80-years old, Todenhöfer has presented himself for years as someone who understands Islam, and many young people of Turkish origin have been campaigning for his "Team" since this spring. Nonetheless, the AKP lobby is trying to interfere - given that the election has turned into a neck-and-neck race between the CDU/CSU and the SPD. There is no party with Turkish roots standing for election in 2021. This constituted 0.4% of votes in that state, or just 0.1% nationally. It only stood in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, where it won 12% of the German-Turkish vote. Organizations close to his party, the AKP, then mobilized on behalf of the "Alliance of German Democrats," a micro-party founded by German Turks the previous year. He called on eligible German voters of Turkish origin not to vote for the CDU/CSU, the SPD, or the Greens, saying that they were all enemies of Turkey. Back then, they came directly from the office of the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Similar views were expressed before the 2017 federal election. Mobilization for micro-parties DW editor Elmas Topcu Image: Elmas Topcu/DW And while the posts comment that the business-friendly Free Democrats, who may end up in the next government, have not expressed any hatred of Turkey or Islam in recent years, they also say the party isn't pro-Turkey.īasically, the advice is that none of these parties can be voted for, which sounds almost like a call for an election boycott. The Greens, the party of Cem Özdemir, a so-called enemy of Turkey, and the Left Party, which includes Sevim Dagdelen, an alleged supporter of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) which has been designated as a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the EU, are also definitely out of the question, according to the comments on social media. German-Turkish voters are also advised that the CDU/CSU's coalition partner, the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), are not an option because they sympathize with members of the Turkish opposition or the Gülen movement which Erdogan blames for the failed 2016 coup attempt . The CDU/CSU, some of the social media posts claim, effectively ruled itself out when Interior Minister Horst Seehofer of the CSU stated in 2018 that Islam did not "belong to" Germany. Some of the advice circulating online is that the center-right bloc made up of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), is particularly unelectable, because of its policy on Islam. German Green politician Cem Özdemir is a critic of the Turkish government Image: Arnulf Hettrich/imago images
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