Gul, Erdogan congratulate new German Greens co-chair Ozdemir

At a joint press conference yesterday, Claudia Roth, the co-chair of the German Alliance 90/ Green Party, congratulated fellow co-chair Cem Ozdemir, saying the election to the position of someone from a Turkish immigrant family was unprecedented. "Positive feedback is coming in from Germany and abroad," she added. Asked whether politicians from Turkey had congratulated him on his historic achievement, Ozdemir said he had heard from several top officials, including President Abdullah Gul, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Foreign Minister and chief negotiator for Turkey's European Union talks Ali Babacan.