Gabriel criticizes exlusion of Turkish media from NSU trials

Amid criticisms over the exclusion of Turkish media from the trial of murders of ten people, including eight Turkish immigrant shopkeepers, by the so-called National Socialist Underground (NSU) between 2000 and 2007, Sigmar Gabriel, chairman of the Social Democrat Party of Germany (SPD), criticized a court decision which led to an accreditation crisis. Speaking to the German Bild am Sonntag daily, Gabriel said that if an Islamic terrorist gang had committed serial murders against Germans in Turkey and the German press had not been allowed to follow the trial, the earth would have been moved.