First member of German government to visit Turkey since coup attempt
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Berlin, Oct. 7, 2016 (dpa/NAN) German Development Minister, Gerd Mueller, is scheduled to arrive in Ankara later on Friday on the first visit by a German cabinet member since the attempted coup in Turkey in July.
The Turkish leadership around President Recep Tayyip Erdogan indicated at the time that they had hoped for greater solidarity from the German government.
They said the solidarity was in response to the events of July 15, when elements of the Turkish army attempted to seize power.
Mueller will be holding talks with Turkish Social Affairs Minister, Fatma Kaya, on how to focus on efforts to assist Syrian refugees in Turkey.
“Turkey is a reliable partner in implementing these measures,” Mueller told German correspondents travelling with him.
Germany is home to a large Turkish minority, with some 1.5 million German residents holding Turkish citizenship estimates of the total Turkish population range above 3 million.
Mueller had earlier in the week visited refugee projects in Jordan and Lebanon.
In another development, a survey conducted by Munich’s Technical University that was published on Friday said that upwardly mobile German women aim lower than men in career.
It said that the highly qualified German women are much less likely to want to set up their own business and gain positions on companies’ executive boards.
Whereas 19 per cent of men surveyed wished to run their own business, the figure was just 9 per cent for women, according to the survey of 2,400 respondents commissioned by the Family Business Foundation.
“Similarly, twice as many men as women aimed at a top executive position among the respondents, who all had university degrees or equivalent.
“Women were twice as likely to aim to be project managers.
“They also aimed to combine family and career,’’ Alwine Mohnen, who headed the study said.
Nevertheless, women are watching their pay packets almost as closely as men.
A similar survey in 2008 showed just 13 per cent of women putting income among the three most important aspects in choosing a career.
That figure has now risen to 38 per cent, against 46 per cent for men.
“This reflects increasing equality of status in professional life, and the need for many women to finance the household income in part or in full,” Stefan Heidbreder, Head of the foundation said. (dpa/NAN)
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Edited by Damilola Oyewole and Abdullahi Yusuf