International Courant
BERLIN
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday welcomed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s deliberate go to to Berlin this weekend for the EURO 2024 quarter-final match between Türkiye and the Netherlands.
“I’m delighted that the Turkish President is visiting, and by the way in which, many heads of state and authorities, and a few royal households are coming right here for the video games,” Scholz instructed reporters in Berlin.
“And we attempt to make sure that representatives of the German authorities are all the time current, which I consider can be an excellent signal of respect, and we’re doing our utmost for this,” he stated, including that he shall be attending the quarter-final between Germany and Spain on Friday.
After knocking Austria out of the EURO 2024 by 2-1 in a spherical 16 match on Tuesday, Vincenzo Montella’s Türkiye will face the Netherlands on Saturday in Berlin. The quarter-final match on the Olympiastadion will start at 1900GMT.
When requested if he would meet with Turkish President Erdogan this weekend, Chancellor Scholz stated whereas they impart incessantly, a gathering could be troublesome resulting from their busy schedules.
“I’m happy that President Erdogan is visiting Germany, that he’s attending the soccer match. I’ve a relentless change with the Turkish president, we regularly speak on the cellphone, we meet at worldwide conferences,” Scholz stated.
“However now it is a time when an unimaginable variety of heads of state and authorities are visiting Germany. And I don’t have a bilateral assembly with every chief, however in fact, except we’re attending the identical match,” he added.
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