German political leaders slam Erdogan for post-coup crackdown

Berlin (dpa) – German politicians at the weekend slammed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the mass arrests and political crackdown in Turkey following last month’s failed coup attempt. Bernd Riexinger, chairman of Germany’s The Left (Die Linke) party, called for an immediate halt to EU accession negotiations with Turkey. “A government that hunts journalists, redefines justice,…