{"id":61753,"date":"2018-09-29T11:44:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T10:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=61753"},"modified":"2018-09-29T11:44:24","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T10:44:24","slug":"turkeys-president-erdogan-meets-merkel-in-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/turkeys-president-erdogan-meets-merkel-in-berlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey&#8217;s President Erdogan meets Merkel in Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday at a working breakfast to discuss bilateral and international issues.<\/h2>\n<p>Erdogan was accompanied by Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, and Technology and Industry Minister Mustafa Varank.<\/p>\n<p>It was Erdogan and Merkel&#8217;s second meeting during the president\u2019s three-day high-profile state visit to Germany.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Erdogan and Merkel headed a larger meeting between Turkish and German ministers and senior officials.<\/p>\n<p>At a joint press conference afterwards, Merkel vowed to enhance cooperation between Germany and Turkey in the economy and energy and security despite political differences on a number of issues.<\/p>\n<p>Merkel said their talks on Saturday would focus on bilateral relations and regional issues, including the situation in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Following his official meetings in Berlin on Saturday, Erdogan is scheduled to proceed to the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which has a large Turkish immigrant population.<\/p>\n<p>In Cologne, Erdogan is expected to attend the inauguration ceremony of Cologne Central Mosque, run by Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday at a working breakfast to discuss bilateral and international issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,174],"tags":[4307,1153],"class_list":["post-61753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-turkey-daily","tag-angela-merkel","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}