berlin deal: The most absurd things are possible, said Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel in a caution to travelers that highlighted alarm at what Berlin clearly sees as the growing unpredictability of President Tayyip Erdogan. ; Gabriel broke off his holiday to return to Berlin and deal with the crisis after Turkey arrested six human rights activists including German national Peter Steudtner on accusations of terrorism, the latest in a series of diplomatic rows, according to The Japan Times. Germany, Turkey's chief export partner, called the allegations absurd. Everyone can be affected. We need our policies towards Turkey to go in a new direction we can't continue as we have done, Gabriel told reporters in unusually direct language touching on sensitive commercial matters including corporate investment guarantees. Domestic and foreign critics accuse him of using a state of emergency as cover to root out opposition. Erdogan says a crackdown, in which 150,000 people have been sacked or suspended from the judiciary and journalism to academia and roughly 50,000 detained, was essential after a failed coup last July.
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