The left-wing Bundestag member Ferat Koçak is sitting in the Berlin party headquarters and is preparing for an interview with ZEIT to talk about his chats with Firas Rammo from an extended Arab family in Berlin, which have been publicly discussed for days.
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Ferat Koçak, a member of the Bundestag for the Left, is accused of being connected via chats with Firas Rammo, a member of an extended Arab family in Berlin. The chats have been discussed publicly for days.
There are two ways one can understand the story of Ferat Koçak and the Rammo family. In one sense, Bundestag member Koçak is quite naive - and in the other: he is lying.
On Monday, Koçak sits in an office at the Left party headquarters in Berlin. In front of him is his laptop, a few sheets of notes and printouts of the chats that half the country has been discussing for days. In it he exchanged ideas with Firas Rammo, a member of a large Arab family in Berlin. The following conversation is intended to be his defense; he wants to create “transparency,” as he says, and talk to ZEIT about the allegations against him.
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In the ZEIT interview, Koçak will try to create transparency and refute the allegations.
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