State Visits
In 2006, Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to discuss accession of Turkey to the EU.
In 2008, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited Chancellor Merkel in Berlin and also visited Munich. He suggested during the visit that the German government establish Turkish medium schools and that German high schools hire more teachers from Turkey.
In 2011, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made another visit to Germany During a speech in Düsseldorf, he urged Turks in Germany, to integrate, but not assimilate, a statement that caused a political outcry in Germany.
Read more about this topic: German-Turkish Relations
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