BERLIN: Germany will hold memorial events on Tuesday for five ethnic Turkish victims of a neo-Nazi arson attack 25 years ago, at a time of resurgent xenophobia and simmering bilateral tensions ahead of Turkish elections. Berlin has barred Turkish politicians from campaigning in the country home to three million ethnic Turks -- the largest diaspora abroad -- some 1.4 million of whom can vote in their ancestral homeland. Two women and three girls died, the youngest just four years old, and 14 others including several children suffered injuries. Merkel, the two foreign ministers and victims' relatives will from 1000 GMT attend a ceremony at the North Rhine-Westphalia state chancellery in Duesseldorf. Some 400 leftist activists marched in Solingen last Saturday, warning against Germany's newly emboldened far-right.

Source: Bangkok Post May 29, 2018 03:45 UTC