The first foreign airline flight landed at Tehran airport since war
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Turkey’s media watchdog RTUK has lifted a ban that was introduced to block Deutsche Welle Turkish back in 2022, the watchdog said on June 27.
In 2019, Turkey introduced a legislation to push foreign news outlets to establish offices in the country.
After Deutsche Welle and Voice of America (VOA) refused to comply with the legislation, both services were blocked in June 2022. They used alternative domains but they had to close Turkey offices.
Dwturkce.com, which was blocked by a court order in 2023, meanwhile, still remains blocked.
The ban on VOA, which is targeted by Donald Trump, also remains in effect.
Christian democrats are back
Between 2021 and May 2025, social democrat party SDP led the ruling coalition in Germany. German social democrats hesitate to pose in good manners with the Erdogan regime on the media albeit the Turkey-Germany partnership continued undeterred during the SDP-led government.
On May 6, Christian democrat CDU’s Friedrich Merz, a former employee of BlackRock (New York/BLK, the dominant asset manager in the world), took over the chancellor post.
German Christian democrats are not shy when it comes to their alliance with the Erdogan regime.
On June 25, Merz and Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, exhibited their close relationship before cameras in The Hague in the Netherlands on the sidelines of a Nato summit.
Two days after the meeting RTUK lifted the Deutsche Welle ban.
Turkey’s EU accession path ended in the Middle East
In 2002, when Erdogan took over the government in Turkey, then German chancellor Gerard Schroeder, a SDP member, was among the champions of Turkey’s EU accession along with Jacques Chirac in France, Silvio Berlusconi in Italy and Tony Blair in the UK.
The next generation of elites in Europe led by CDU’s Angela Merkel, who held the chancellor post in Germany between 2005 and 2021, blocked Turkey’s membership process while supporting the Erdogan regime’s slide to autocracy.
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