German-Turkish rift will widen, despite high cost
Suppressed bilateral tensions have come out into the open and are unlikely to be eased while Erdogan rules
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- Relations plummet after 2015
- Berlin's patience is tested ...
- ... and snaps
- Climbdown looks difficult
- Frozen stagnation looms
- Economic disengagement
- Turkish estrangement
- German sanctions?
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_350.jpg "German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel and Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu at a news conference in Ankara (Reuters/Umit Bektas)")