Several German foreign politicians have rejected the assessment by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that his country had prevailed in the dispute over the threatened expulsion of the ambassador.

“The West will continue to demand that Turkey implement all international judgments.

This also applies to the Kavala ruling by the Human Rights Court, ”said the Union's foreign policy spokesman, Johann Wadephul, to the Reuters news agency on Tuesday.

“The Council of Europe has set a deadline for November here.

There must be no wobbling on our part. "

The background to this is that the ambassadors of Germany, the United States and eight other Western countries demanded the release of the opposition activist Osman Kavala, who has been imprisoned since 2017.

Erdogan then announced their deportation, but withdrew it on Monday after the embassies declared that they would adhere to diplomatic conventions and not interfere in the internal affairs of a host country.

"No interference, but the necessary commitment to values"

The foreign politicians of the Greens and the FDP do not see any retreat of the West either.

"The unjustified triumphant posturing from Ankara does not help to smooth things over," said the foreign policy spokesman for the Greens, Omid Nouripour, to Reuters.

“And it certainly doesn't stop us from consistently advocating the rule of law and human rights.

Also for the rights of Osman Kavala. "

The FPD's foreign policy spokesman, Bijan Djir-Sarai, made a similar statement.

“Interfering in the internal affairs of Turkey would be wrong.

Nevertheless, the international community cannot remain silent on questions of human and civil rights in Turkey.

This is not meddling, but the necessary commitment to values, ”he told Reuters.

The background to this is that the Turkish president waived the previously announced expulsion of ten ambassadors after the messages of "defamation of our country and our nation stepped back", as he said.

The American embassy and several other Western representations had previously announced that they had adhered to a diplomatic convention.

"The United States has determined that it complies with Article 41 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations," the American embassy tweeted.

The other messages expressed themselves similarly.

The Federal Government had also emphasized that the criticism of the Turkish approach was legitimate because it was only demanding the implementation of a judgment of the European Court of Human Rights and thus an international judgment.