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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visits Turkey on Saturday for talks with Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the escalating Middle East crisis and migration, while Ankara hopes to speed up the purchase of Eurofighter jets. Scholz, who last visited in March 2022 a few months after taking office, will meet President Erdogan in Istanbul. Last week, German officials said the Ukraine war, the Middle East conflict and migration would be the main focus of the visit. Turkey’s relations with Germany — home to Europe’s largest Turkish diaspora of some three million people — are sensitive and Berlin has voiced conce…

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