Tourism officials believe Germany will remove travel warning imposed against Turkey  

The tourism sector received positive messages after the meeting of the Turkish and German foreign ministers in Berlin. Tourism officials believe the travel warning imposed will be lifted by July 15. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy held talks yesterday on opening up tourism in Germany. Cavusoglu first met with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas. The main agenda item of the meeting was Germany’s travel warning for Turkey.

At a joint press conference after the meeting, where Turkish officials described the measures taken, Maas said they had promised to review Germany and the European Union’s (EU) travel warning to Turkey. According to said piece of news, Maas emphasized Germany will decide on this issue within the framework of the EU’s stance and added that they made evaluations about the situation together with EU officials.

He said the EU had taken the first steps to remove travel warnings and those steps would continue, adding: “We are looking at what measures each country has taken. We got a lot of information on that today. We are moving on the fact that regional figures will be very important in the future. Where are there new cases? Where are there none? These need to be considered. We have created a framework across Europe. That’s how the quarantine requirements are set. This issue will be constantly re-examined in the EU, with intervals of two weeks. This travel warning does not apply to people who want to visit their family or relatives, they can easily commute”.

Minister Çavuşoğlu stated that measures had been taken in all facilities in Turkey and that they were supervised by German experts and added “our German friends also want to come to Turkey on holiday. Germany is also very important for the tourism sector”. The list of countries that the EU has removed from the travel warning is not objective and some countries that do not have transparency are on this list, Cavusoglu stressed and Turkey is not”.

He went on to say, we see here that the decision was made by political motives. Last year we hosted more than 5 million German tourists in our country. They all returned to Germany with great pleasure. I believe that after our useful meeting today, our data is transparent and we share it with the EU. We will take decisions on this together”.

SOURCE: www.turizmaktuel.com/haber/alman-turist-icin-kritik-tarih-15-temmuz