“Erdogan’s arm in Germany”
Dobrindt calls for political reaction to Dava
February 3, 2024, 4:41 a.m
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The newly founded Dava group wants, among other things, to run in the European elections. CSU regional group leader Dobrindt calls on Interior Minister Faeser to take action against the association close to Erdogan. This serves to “influence foreign interests”.
CSU regional group leader Alexander Dobrindt has called on Interior Minister Nancy Faeser to take action against the newly founded political association Dava. “It would be the task of Federal Interior Minister Faeser to ensure that parties that clearly serve to exert influence on foreign interests in Germany are prevented from being founded or from taking part in elections,” Dobrindt told the “Augsburger Allgemeine”. It is a group “that is aimed at Muslim migrants and is intended exclusively to act as Erdogan’s political arm in Germany.”
The Democratic Alliance for Diversity and Awakening (Dava) went public in mid-January with the announcement that it wanted to take part in the European elections on June 9th. The candidates that Dava has presented so far include two men who were previously involved in Islamic associations.
The chairman of the new association, Teyfik Özcan, is not running himself. Özcan rejected allegations that Dava was an extension of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Islamic-conservative Turkish ruling party AKP.
The parliamentary director of the SPD in the Bundestag, Katja Mast, sees no competition for her SPD in the new group. “In the history of the Federal Republic, a party that was only aimed at one ethnic or religious group has never been successful, and this one will not be successful either,” Mast told the Bayern media group. “The SPD is a people’s party – that means for all people, regardless of whether they have faith or not, whether they are Christian or Muslim. The values that we share are important.”