Merkel: No urgent need to offer financial aid for Turkey

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she sees no urgent need to offer financial aid for Turkey to ease its currency crisis. She made the statement at a meeting of her Christian Democrats (CDU), the conservative party’s general secretary said on Monday. “She made it clear again that she sees no urgency at the moment for special aid for Turkey,” Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer told reporters after the CDU board meeting attended by Merkel, Reuters said. Spokesman Steffen Seibert also said Monday that “the question of German aid for Turkey is not on the government’s agenda at the moment.”