German Foreign Minister, Analena Bourbokand the Minister of the Interior, Nancy Feather, tomorrow they will go together to the victims seismic regions of Turkey to be immediately aware of the situation and meet with the German rescuers and volunteers.

In the same time, the federal government has come under fire for its stance concerning issuance of visas to Turks affected by the earthquake who want to take refuge with their relatives in Germany.

“Ministers want to get an idea on the spot about the help from German organizations and talk to the victims about their needs,” said a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry.

From the very beginning, Germany provided humanitarian aid to Turkey and Syriaand units of the Federal Technical Assistance Service went to the area.

During their stay in the city of Gaziantep, the two German ministers will also hold talks to simplify the process of issuing visas from the disaster area.

Today, however, the Seebrücke organization criticized the delay. visa process. “The federal government deliberately made the visa requirements so complicated that you could later say that they wanted to help, but no one took advantage of their offer,” said organization expert Maria Sonek, noting that it is extremely difficult to provide documents, since most of them are lost in ruins.

In the same vein, the Turkish community in Germany asks for easier procedures. “Until now, the procedures have been sluggish and not as bureaucratic as we hoped,” the president of the Ezelikai community, Yurtbay, told the German public broadcaster ARD and called for the measure to no longer be limited to first- and second-degree relatives. inhabitants of Germany. “There are people in Germany who want to help, even if they don’t have relatives in the affected areas,” he said.

Source: RES-IPE