Photo: DPAPresident Recep Tayyip Erdogan's spokesman Monday accused German politicians of surrendering to populism after Chancellor Angela Merkel said she would seek to end talks on Turkey's accession to the European Union. Merkel said she would discuss with EU counterparts if "we can end these membership talks", adding: "I don't see (Turkey) ever joining and I had never believed that it would happen." Bilateral ties worsened after Turkey detained German citizens including Turkish-German journalist Deniz Yucel, the Istanbul correspondent for the Die Welt newspaper. Turkey frees one of Germans arrested 'for political reasons'One of two German nationals arrested by Turkey for "political reasons" has been released, Berlin said Monday. Foreign ministry officials said the German nationals were detained on Thursday for "political reasons".

Source: The Local September 04, 2017 12:45 UTC