Turkey officials may be gloating after a German election this week ushered into parliament a right-wing party for the first time in six decades, but the results will also make Ankara’s efforts to repair frayed relations with Europe even trickier.
Chancellor Angela Merkel won a fourth term in Sunday's parliamentary elections, but her victory was overshadowed by the record 13.5% votes for the anti-Muslim Alternative for Germany (AfD). Unease with immigration as well as tensions with Turkey were central in the AfD’s surge.