Martin Erdmann

Turkey can lure more businesses and investments in the post-coronavirus world due to the further geographical diversification of the international production locations of German companies, German Ambassador to Turkey Martin Erdmann has said, citing Turkey's well-educated labor force combined with modern infrastructure as the most important assets for a successful future.

German Ambassador Martin Erdmann

Turkey holds great economic importance for Germany through bilateral trade and as a production base, German Ambassador to Turkey Martin Erdmann told state-run Anadolu Agency on Oct. 22.

Martin Erdmann, the German Ambassador to Ankara, said on April 4 that there was "no logical place for Turkey's geopolitical location other than the Euro-Atlantic sphere," adding that he wanted to say this "on the next day of the laying ground for a Turkish-Russian nuclear power plant."

German Ambassador to Ankara Martin Erdmann met officials from the Turkish Foreign Ministry in Ankara on Sept. 18, following an invitation made around 10 days ago, according to diplomatic sources. 

The meeting came two days after the ministry summoned Erdmann on Sept. 16 to voice condemnation over a rally held in support of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Cologne. 

Turkey summoned Germany's ambassador to its foreign ministry on Monday, Berlin said, amid a mounting row between the two NATO powers.

Der Spiegel magazine said Ankara wanted to raise a German parliamentary motion last year that declared the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces a genocide - a description that Turkey has long fiercely rejected.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry summoned the German ambassador in Ankara on Sept. 17, over a pro-PKK (outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party) event held in the city of Cologne. 

Turkey and Germany are working to resolve a bilateral crisis over Ankara's rejection of a number of German lawmakers' visit to the Incirlik base, where German troops are based, German Ambassador to Turkey Martin Erdmann has said. 

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has summoned German Ambassador to Ankara Martin Erdmann, over the cancellation of a meeting between Turkey's justice minister and Turkish citizens in Germany on March 2, according to a ministry source.     
 

Germany's ambassador to Turkey, Martin Erdmann, expressed his sorrow to Ayşenur Bahçekapılı, the deputy parliament speaker of the Turkish parliament, for the mistreatment she received by German police at Cologne airport, which fueled a diplomatic tension between the two countries.
 
Erdmann paid a courtesy visit to Bahçekapılı on Dec. 15 in parliament.