Germany is ready to provide shelter to all figures of the political opposition in Turkey, announced the Turkish Foreign Ministry on November 8. "Germany is open to the whole world. It is also open for all the victims of political persecution,” said Michael Roth, German Minister of State for Europe, reports the Welt.

The right to political asylum, according to him, applies not only to journalists. " All critics in Turkey should know that the German government stands in solidarity with them," said Roth.

As reported earlier, the editor and journalists of Cumhurriyet newspaper as well as members and co-founders of Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party were arrested in Turkey.