When Burak Çopur clicked on the cell phone video from Neuss in North Rhine-Westphalia the week before last, he first saw the usual meeting folklore. Men are sitting at tables in a small hall, behind them a wall-covering Turkish flag, a speaker theatrically waves his index finger, he has come from Turkey especially for the election campaign in Germany: Mustafa Açıkgöz, MP from Erdoğan's AKP party.

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