"This is currently not the case," he added.
"We have made it clear from the beginning what our view is on the arrests of teachers, judges and journalists. But with all the justified criticism of the measures in Turkey, we also have to realize - and this has been downplayed in the debate in Germany - that those who carried out the coup did so with the utmost brutality against civilians and against the parliament," DW cited him as saying.
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