{"id":21586,"date":"2010-08-28T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=21586"},"modified":"2023-04-04T18:47:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T15:47:59","slug":"turkish-community-demands-more-government-pressure-on-sarrazin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/08\/28\/turkish-community-demands-more-government-pressure-on-sarrazin\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish community demands more government pressure on Sarrazin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21587\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sarrazin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sarrazin.jpg 468w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sarrazin-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/>The chairman of the Turkish Community in Germany (TGD) has called on Chancellor Angela Merkel to send a clear signal condemning anti-Muslim comments by Bundesbank official Thilo Sarrazin, according to a Saturday report.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I ask the German government to initiate proceedings to dismiss Thilo Sarrazin from the Bundesbank board,&#8221; Turkish community leader Kenan Kolat told German daily\u00a0<em>Frankfurter Rundschau<\/em> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Kolat said the Bundesbank official&#8217;s comments, which appear in Sarrazin&#8217;s forthcoming book, had crossed the line. &#8220;It is the culmination of a new intellectual racism and it hurts Germany&#8217;s reputation abroad,&#8221; Kolat told the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>In an excerpt from his book published by daily\u00a0<em>Bild<\/em> on Thursday, Sarrazin said there were <strong><em>&#8220;good grounds&#8221; for reservations against Muslims across Europe.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;There is no other religion with such a flowing transition to violence, dictatorship, and terrorism,&#8221;<\/strong> he claimed, before making the equally provocative assertion that <strong>Muslim immigrants were &#8220;associated with taking advantage of social welfare state and criminality.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kolat praised the broader government response to Sarrazin&#8217;s statements, including criticisms voiced by the SPD leadership, the Green Party, the Left and integration commissioner Maria B\u00f6hmer, as well as Angela Merkel herself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very pleased that the German chancellor spoke so clearly of defamation,&#8221; he said. Kolat also thanked the Central Council of Jews in Germany for its clear condemnation of Sarrazin&#8217;s comments.<\/p>\n<p>Lest the Social Democrats alienate migrant voters, Kolat said he was confident that his party would take further steps to kick Sarrazin out of the SPD. &#8220;He&#8217;ll go himself, or he&#8217;ll be made to leave,&#8221; he said. The Bundesbank official survived a previous attempt this year to revoke his party membership for previous controversial comments.<\/p>\n<p>Sarrazin&#8217;s book<strong>, &#8220;<\/strong><em><strong>Deutschland schafft sich ab &#8211; Wie wir unser Land aufs Spiel setzen<\/strong><\/em><strong>&#8220;<\/strong>, or<strong> \u201cAbolishing Germany &#8211; How we\u2019re putting our country in jeopardy,\u201d<\/strong> is scheduled for publication on Monday. Kolat encouraged a media boycott of the press conference planned to announce the book&#8217;s official release.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.de\/society\/20100828-29455.html\"><\/span>, 28 Aug 10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chairman of the Turkish Community in Germany (TGD) has called on Chancellor Angela Merkel to send a clear signal condemning anti-Muslim comments by Bundesbank official Thilo Sarrazin, according to a Saturday report. &#8220;I ask the German government to initiate proceedings to dismiss Thilo Sarrazin from the Bundesbank board,&#8221; Turkish community leader Kenan Kolat told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":21587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[3507,1215,3506,3509,1045,3505,551],"class_list":["post-21586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-germany","tag-intellectual-racism","tag-anti-turk","tag-defamation","tag-intellectual-neo-nazi-racism","tag-islamophobia","tag-thilo-sarrazin","tag-xenophobia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}