Anyone behaving like this is a racist.Īnd I mean these ladies and gentlemen on the far right. In the meantime, members of parliament have taken up seats in this house whom I can only refer to as racists. Unfortunately, the truth is that our country has dramatically changed in the one year since Deniz Yücel was imprisoned, and this debate bears witness to that.
Everyone knows it except you.Īll of us, the democratic part of this house, are working to ensure that the other journalists who are also imprisoned but do not have a German passport, are released - they deserve it as well because journalism is not a crime. To avoid any misunderstanding: We would be just as glad if he was called Gustav Müller (a typical 'German' name) for every citizen of this country deserves to know that it will stand up for him this is a given. We will not let you jeopardize our freedom of the press, unlike your comrades in Turkey who stole one year from Deniz Yücel's life. The journalist was released from jail in #Turkey last week /Kcqq1Qnvze 🔥🔥"There are MPs in this House that I can’t describe as anything but racists!" Former Green Party leader lays into far-right AfD party after they initiate #Bundestag debate on #DenisYücel's satirical work. We have freedom of the press, a concept that obviously doesn’t exist in your worldview. In our country, the Federal Republic of Germany, there is no such thing as an enforced political conformity that you dream about at night. Things like this exist in the countries you admire. The parliament is not the highest censoring body for us, the citizens of the Federal Republic of Germany. It is in no way, however, the duty of the German Bundestag to cast judgement on the work of journalists as if at school.
It is reminiscent of what we have come to expect from authoritarian countries. We are talking about a German journalist and the articles he has written. Take a moment to carefully consider what we are talking about today. He accused the AfD of seeking to impose Nazi-style press censorship and “despising everything modern Germany stands for”. Former German Green party leader Cem Özdemir delivered a hard-hititting speech at Germany's Bundestag on 22 February comparing the country's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD ) to the Nazis.
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