[Skybird]

I think he did not mean a state decree forbidding Germans to travel to Turkey, but that germans simply should decide against Turkey, and stay in Germany or move to Spain or whereever else for their summer vacation . Which many obviously already do. Personally - I would also like to see a warning by the Außenministerium against travelling to Turkey, and the govenrment recommending private business to no longer raise additional business contacts and investements in Turkey, but to prepare to bail out there. Turkey is lost ground for the West - if it ever was different. The government should also rethink this stupid law that makes it mandatory for the government to intervene and help if people get into troubles with other countries authorities when there was a formal warning to travel to these countries. That Germany must accept that it could be blackmailed becasue some stupid tourist decided to act stupid in choosing a country as a destination where he better should not have gone, is a no go for me. Like insurrances do not necessarily need to pay if you intentionally caused the harm yourself. I did not like Turkey already 20 years ago. Why people voluntarily move to it for vacation, is beyond me.

The whole region I would not travel to anymore today. And practically all contracts I had back then I would not sign again today. I was so stupid back then. But the money was real, and much - or so it seemed to me at that age.