Germany’s foreign ministry says it has lifted sanctions on Turkey and relaxed its travel advice to the country.
This is coming after Turkey ended its two-year state of emergency.
A 1.5 billion-euro ($1.7bn) limit on export guarantees to Turkey would not be renewed this year, Germany’s economy ministry told the AFP
The measure was imposed in July 2017 as a way to pressure Ankara after the detention of a German human rights campaigner and five other activists, including the head of Amnesty International in Turkey.
Opposition parties in Germany have accused the 1.5 billion-euro limit of being too timid, given that the value of export guarantees increased from 1.1bn euros in 2016 to 1.46bn euros the following year.
Germany’s foreign ministry also removed a warning on its website that had said its nationals faced a high risk of arrest in Turkey.
Turkey’s state of emergency, which was imposed after a failed 2016 coup and saw the biggest purge of officials in the country’s modern history, came to an end on Thursday.
