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"Danke, Herr Präsident." Today’s Tageszeitung leads with a big thanks to Christian Wulff. As the immigration and Islam debate rages through Germany after chancellorAngela Merkel proclaimed the failure of multiculturalism, the German president has defused the situation on his visit to Turkey by affirming that Turkish immigrants have a positive influence on German society. That was “the right word at the right time",commends the Berlin daily, "when racism is becoming socially acceptable again in Germany". What’s more, the whole German press has picked up on Wulff’s soundbyte in Ankara that “Christianity is part and parcel of Turkey" – the follow-up to hisstatement in Bremen in early October that "Islam is part and parcel of Germany”.
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