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Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and his wife Emine Erdogan visit a victim of the burned out housing building in Ludwigshafen
07 Feb 2008
Source: Reuters
 
Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan (R) and his wife Emine Erdogan visit a victim of the burned out housing building in Ludwigshafen, 70km (43 miles) south of Frankfurt, February 7, 2008.Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan called for calm on Thursday when he visited the site of a fire in a western German city which killed nine people of Turkish origin and heightened community tension. The cause of Sunday's blaze in an apartment block in Ludwigshafen is not known but speculation is rife in the local Turkish community and in Turkish media that it was a racially motivated arson attack. TURKEY OUT REUTERS/Anatolian/Kayhan Ozer (TURKEY). EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS.
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