Claudia Roth
Claudia Roth, the co-leader of Germany's Greens party, speaks to AFP in Ankara where she expressed solidarity with Turkish protesters on June 17, 2013. Germany, home to the world's largest Turkish expatriate community, gave its strongest condemnation to date yesterday of Ankara's violent crackdown on protests, with Chancellor Angela Merkel warning the government to respect democratic freedoms.
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A Letter from Istanbul
including the wounded! several parliamentarians are wounded and hospitalized!” “Among those gassed in the Divan Hotel is Claudia Roth (chair of the Green Party in Germany). Tens of thousands of people from all over Istanbul are trying to walk in masses towards from iHeartBerlin Read more »
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Riot police patrol Istanbul to thwart revival of protests
confusion rather than injure – engulfed the park. “We tried to flee and the police pursued us. It was like war,” Claudia Roth, co-chair of Germany’s Greens party, who had gone to Gezi Park to show her support, told Reuters. The Gezi Park protesters, who oppose from Globe and Mail Read more »
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German Greens co-chair affected by tear gas, takes refuge at hotel
the first time after two weeks. The outcry resulting from the muscled crackdown leaded to many protests across the town with clash breaking out at several arterial roads. Claudia Roth took shelter at the Divan hotel like deozens of protesters. AA photo from Hurriet Daily News Read more »
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The Formidable Friendship of Mary McCarthy and Hannah Arendt
meeting and said, “Let’s end this nonsense. We think so much alike.” “We think so much alike.” In this magazine, in 1995, Claudia Roth Pierpont called this statement a “richly productive lie.” These days, McCarthy is not recalled as a thinker at all. She’s from The New Yorker Read more »
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Restrictions in neo-Nazi trial clouds transparency: German Greens leader
been restricted in reporting the trials of the neo-Nazi group responsible for the killings of eight Turks, said party co-chair Claudia Roth March 30. Roth, who is currently in southeastern Turkey to visit local associations and politicians, said the German from Hurriet Daily News Read more »
