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German TV Channel Changes Logo To Show Islamic Star And Crescent

German TV station Tele5 has changed its logo to represent German and Turkish solidarity in the face of the recent terrorist attacks in Istanbul which killed 10 German tourists.  The new logo shows the Islamic star and crescent of Turkey’s flag superimposed on the national tricolor. The change in logo comes just two weeks after the New Year’s Eve sexual assaults on revelers in Cologne by newly arrived migrants, that led to a rise of anti-immigration sentiment in Germany and other European countries. Breitbart reports: Tele5 justified the move on Twitter this afternoon, saying that it was a symbol “expressing our sympathy to the victims of yesterday’s attack,” on German tourists in Istanbul. The attack in Istanbul took the lives of 10  tourists, mostly Germans, in Sultanahmet square, a tourist location near the Blue mosque and Hagia Sophia. According to Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus, the suicide bomber who perpetrated the attack has been identified as a Syrian migrant from body parts recovered on the scene. The Deputy Prime Minister also clarified that the bomber was not on Turkey’s terrorism watch list, and it has now been reported that he entered the country as a Syrian “refugee”. Um den Opfern des [...]