DEU, Deutschland, Germany, Berlin, 28.09.2018 Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Praesident der Republik Tuerkei, und Angela Merkel, Bundeskanzlerin (rechts). Pressebegehung im Bundeskanzleramt anlaesslich vom tuerkischen Praesidenten in Berlin, Deutschland. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, president of the Turkey, and Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany (right), at a press call at the Chancellery Office during the state visit of the Turkish President in Berlin, Germany. Turkish President Erdogan is in Germany for a controversial three-day state visit that both sides hope will restore relations that have been battered in recent years.