Erdowie, Erdowo, Erdogan

The roughly 2-minute-long video, set to the tune of "Irgendwie, irgendwo, irgendwann" by German band Nena, takes aim at Erdoğan over a variety of issues, including his government's treatment of refugees, his clamping down on press freedoms in Turkey (including the hostile takeover of the Zaman newspaper that month), his bombing of the Kurds in Syria, and his anti-democratic actions in Turkey.

[2][3][4] On 22 March 2016, Turkish government officials summoned the German ambassador to the country, Martin Erdmann, and formally complained about the video, requesting it to be taken down.

A representative of left wing political party Die Linke said, "The foreign office finally has to take a clear stand to defend press freedom.

"[1] Representatives of the Christian Democratic Union, which was part of the ruling coalition at the time, told Der Spiegel that the party opposed Erdogan's "hopeless arrogance" and attempts at "intimidation".

[4] Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger [de], writing for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, said that the fiasco "is an indication of a clear misunderstanding of Western press freedoms" on Erdoğan's part.