Ministers-President of Lower Saxony

Germany is sharpening its policy toward Turkey in response to jailings of journalists and human rights activists. The Foreign Ministry is now warning German citizens that they face risks if they go to Turkey, reported DW.

Remarks by German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel on Turkey amount to an investment for the upcoming elections in the country, Presidential spokesperson İbrahim Kalın said on July 20, calling them "unfortunate."

"We think that those unfortunate statements are an investment for internal politics aimed at the approaching elections in Germany," Kalın said at a press briefing.

Germany's Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel says a "Trumpization" of interactions in the already crisis-shaken Middle East region was extremely dangerous.

"US President Trump's recent giant military contracts with Gulf monarchies raise the risk of a new spiral in arms sales," Gabriel warned in the interview for Handelsblatt to be published Wednesday, Deutsche Welle reported.

Germany's foreign minister says he cannot believe that most Serbians still believes that Russia provides the greatest financial assistance to the country.

The EU has to work much more on its visibility in the region, says German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel.

The EU should invest more and engage more, he said, speaking at the 8th Southeast Europe Foreign Ministers' Conference organized by the Aspen Institute.

Berlin could move its soldiers to another country from Turkey such as Jordan if Ankara does not grant permission to members of the German parliament's defense committee to visit staff currently serving at a NATO mission İncirlik Air Base, Chancellor Angela Merkel has said.

German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has commented on the result of Turkey's constitutional referendum, saying that "people should remain calm."  

"It looks like it will be a close result, as expected. However the vote of the Turkish people turns out in the end, we'd be well advised to keep calm and to proceed in a level-headed way," Gabriel said in a statement.

German Minister for Foreign Affairs Sigmar Gabriel, who is in Moscow for talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, says that Germany fears a new arms race in Europe.

"We are concerned that a new spiral of the arms race may emerge in Europe," he said, as cited by TASS. "It's too early to say how and in what direction we could advance to prevent this."

BRUSSELS - The vote on a European Parliament (EP) resolution on Serbia has been postponed - most likely until late April - due to a policy of non-interference in the upcoming elections in Serbia, rapporteur David McAllister, who also chairs the EP Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), announced Tuesday.

Social Democrat Martin Schulz would receive the same level of support as German Chancellor Angela Merkel if voters could vote directly for the head of government, showed a survey of ARD TV carried out on Wednesday, cited by Reuters.

Schulz and Merkel have the same level of electoral support - 41%, reported BTA.