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Hamburg is on high alert as protesters plan to take advantage of the meeting being organised in a densely populated, inner city area

Clashes and arrests have already taken place in the German city with several injuries being reported.

Now, protesters are planning to use the citys landscape to stop the worlds most powerful leaders meeting without disruption.

Police will ban demonstrations within a 38 square kilometre zone from the airport to the conference centre where the leaders are meeting on July 7 and 8.

Campaigners aim to block access in and out of the summit venue which borders the densely populated Schanzenviertel district.

Delegates will likely only be able to enter the venue from the west.

Mass bike rides are planned by protestors to stop traffic and outdoor cinema screenings in the street will attempt to seriously disrupt the days proceedings.

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Protesters are used to being kettled [a police tactic used to contain crowds during demonstrations]

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Emily Laquer, a spokesperson for one march, said: Protesters are used to being kettled [a police tactic used to contain crowds during demonstrations].

At the G20, were going to turn the tables on Trump, Putin and Erdoan.

A warning has gone out to anyone attempting to get in the way of the guests of the G20.

Social Democratic party interior senator, Andy Grote, said protesters should not try anything dangerous or reckless.

He said: Security forces will see every hold-up as a major emergency, even if its just because of a harmless demonstration.

They wont stop under any circumstances.

Inside, climate change and free trade will be at the top of the agenda for Germanys Angle Merkel - just weeks after the USA refused to take part in the Paris Accord.

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German Chancellor Merkel reacts as she receives guests at the Chancellery in Berlin

Violent clashes have overshadowed the gathering in the past.

The G8 summit in Genoa ended in chaos when 200,000 demonstrators took to the streets and Italian anti-globalisation protester, Carlos Giuliani, was shot dead in 2001.

While German authorities are confident of being able to control campaigners - around 100,000 are expected to march on G20.

Jan Reinicke, of the Association of Criminal Police, said: Many of my colleagues and I find it incomprehensible that another big city has been chosen for such a gathering after the terrible events of Genoa.

Reinicke said there are growing fears there could be another Genoa.

Block G20 protesters have denied accusations they are directly target politicians.

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Nico Berg, a spokesperson for Block G20, said: Trump and co should be able to be helicoptered into the conference centre either way.

But we will make sure that his sherpas with the paperwork, the press entourage and the lunchtime catering wont be able to join them there.

Mr Reinicke said: There will be 20 delegations, each of which will need a choice of three secured routes into the centre, in case of emergency changes of plan.

The potential risk scenarios are varied and hard to predict. Of course the concern is that the violence in the inner-city areas could escalate and we end up with another Genoa.

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'We'll KETTLE Trump, Erdogan and Putin' Protestors plot violence at G20 summit in Hamburg - Express.co.uk

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03:46 03.07.2017(updated 08:42 03.07.2017) Get short URL

Martin Schulz, a Social Democrat (SPD), has been hitting the campaign stump inhis attempt tounseat Merkel, butis currently a long shot despitetaking a brief lead inthe polls back inJanuary

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Schulz, inclaiming that Merkel does not go far enough tocounter comments aboutGermany bythe US president that are seen asbeing onthe rude side ofblunt, stated, "I would say toTrump: We don't agree withyour reasoning overa military buildup, which isn't justified byanything."

The center-left SPD party candidate asserted, "The German chancellor must sometimes dare tobe inconflict withthe American president," according toDeutsche Welle.

Merkel has been seen tobe patient withTrump's often outlandish and undiplomatic behavior, including afterthe US president suggested that the three-time German chancellor was "ruining Germany" byaccepting refugees.

Trump also referred toGermany as "very bad," because ofits trade imbalances, duringa meeting ofNATO leaders.

Schulz, a former president ofthe EU, stated ina clear reference toRussian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that his words were "not just forMerkel," aswith a G20 summit inHamburg coming up, "a democratic government needs toask itself if it wants tojoin inconsensus declarations withautocrats."

"Should we be making concessions toTrump, Erdogan and Putin? No," Schulz told Germany's Welt an Sommtag newspaper. "You can also give a president a clear no," the candidate suggested, referring toMerkel's diplomatic ability tokeep a political debate fromdescending intomere name-calling.

Schulz has seen the tide ofenthusiasm forhis candidacy ebb inrecent weeks infavor ofMerkel. A recent survey fromGerman polling agency INSA revealed that 37 percent ofvoters inthe country favor ofMerkel and just 24 percent support Schultz.

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'Dare to be in Conflict': Merkel Rival Calls Her Soft on Trump, Putin, Erdogan - Sputnik International

ANKARA, Turkey Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke with President Trump amid tensions over Washington's decision to arm Syrian Kurdish forces fighting the Islamic State group, a Turkish official said Friday.

Mahir Unal, a spokesman for Erdogan's ruling party, said the two leaders spoke by phone but did not provide details on their discussions. He told reporters, however, that the Turkish leader later also spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Turkey considers the U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish militia group the People's Protection Units, or YPG to be terrorists linked to outlawed Kurdish insurgents in its country.

The YPG is the largest group within the Syrian Democratic Forces battling to oust ISIS from its Syrian stronghold of Raqqa.

Ankara has vowed to intervene if the YPG poses a security threat. This week Turkey's military returned fire in response to a cross-border attack by the group.

Earlier, Brett McGurk, the top U.S. envoy for the international coalition against ISIS, met with Turkish foreign ministry and military officials, a Turkish official said. He spoke on condition of anonymity in line with government regulations.

McGurk said on Twitter he was holding consultations with Turkey on "mutual efforts to defeat (ISIS) and ensure it can never return."

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Erdogan, Trump talk amid dispute over arms to Kurd fighters - Military Times

The meeting follows a visit by the U.S. special envoy for the coalition against the Islamic State, Brett McGurk, to Ankara and precedes the first in-person meeting between American President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Turkeys state-run Anadolu Agency reports thatShoigu met with Erdogan and a number of high-ranking Turkish politicians, including Turkish National Defense Minister Fikri Isik, Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar, National Intelligence Organization (MIT) head Hakan Fidan, and Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin.

While Anadolu did not provide details on the discussion, multiple media outlets suggested the conversation largely focused on the Syrian civil war, which has flooded Turkey with over three million Syrian refugees, according to the United Nations. Anadolu notes that Turkey will be part of multilateral talks with Assad, Iran, and Russia on how to limit the violence in the ongoing civil war. All past iterations of these talks held in Astana, Kazakhstan have failed.

TheTurkish newspaperHurriyet notes that Russia and Turkey have supported one another in promoting these talks. Cooperation between Turkey andRussiahas tightened markedly since last year, with the two countries jointly sponsoring peace talks in the Kazakh capital Astana, the newspaper reports. It adds that Turkey may be seeking to influence these negotiations to the detriment of the Syrian Kurdish Peoples Protection Units (YPG), which it considers a terrorist group tied to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a U.S.-designated Marxist terrorist group.

Turkeys opposition to the YPGs participation in the war against the Islamic State puts it at odds with both Russia and the United States. The anti-Islamist, leftist-leaning YPG has cooperated with Russia on the ground in operations against ISIS as well as provided ISIS target coordinates for American airstrikes.

In May, the Pentagon announced that it would equip the YPG and its all-female unit, the YPJ, with heavy weapons and praised the group as the only force formidable enough to take on the Islamic State in its capital, Raqqa.

On Friday, Erdogan spoke to Putin on the phone, according to Russia news outlet TASS, whichcited a Kremlin statement saying Erdogan and Putin discussed key aspects of the Syrian settlement focusing on the fifth international Astana meeting on Syria, sponsored by Russia, Turkey, and Iran, which is scheduled to be held in early July.

Putin is expected to have his first in-person meeting with U.S. President Trump this week at the G20 Summit. White House officials have told reporters that theres no specific agenda for the meeting on schedule so far, though tensions in Syria are high on the list of mutual priorities.

On the same day Erdogan spoke to Putin, McGurk arrived to meet Defense and Foreign Ministry officials in Ankara, following a routine visit to Syria for updates on the operation to liberate Raqqa. While the details of those conversations remain confidential, that Turkey welcomed McGurk at all is a sign of slightly diminished tensions. Erdogans government has previously demanded the U.S. fire McGurk for being too sympathetic to the YPG.

That is not to say the Turkish government has adopted a new attitude towards the Syrian Kurds. On Saturday, Erdogans spokesmanIbrahim Kaln did not dismiss the possibility of attacking the YPG considerably in Afrin, near the Turkey-Syria border.Any threat that may come from Syria or another country towards Turkey this could be from Daesh, the PYD/YPG, whatever terrorist organization it is Turkey is responding immediately with all reprisals, Kaln told reporters.

It is impossible for us to consent to the support that U.S. provides to the YPG within the context of the Raqqa operation against Daesh terror, Kaln reiterated.

Turkey deployed troops to Afrin and exchanged fire with the YPG last week, according to various reports from the region. The Kurdish outlet Kurdistan24 claims that Turkey has already begun preparations to invade the Kurdish Afrin region in northwestern Syria.

Rudaw, another Kurdish outlet based in Iraq, reported Friday that all signs pointed to a possible large-scale conflict between the Turkish military and the Syrian Kurds.

A YPG commander,MehmudBerxwedan, threatened that Turkey will be plunged into a swamp, politically and militarily there will bean historicalresistance against Turkish occupation in Afrin andShahbaregions if it launches a campaign against the Syrian Kurds.

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Turkey's Erdogan, Russian Defense Minister Talk Syria as Trump Gears Up for Putin Meeting - Breitbart News

On Wednesday, Turkey officially requested permission for Mr Erdogan to address Turks in Germany on the sidelines of his visit to the summit, which is being held in Hamburg.

The request comes at a time when relations between Germany and Turkey are frayed over a range of issues, and when German police resources are stretched by security for the G20.

News agency dpa reported that Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said during a visit to Moscow on Thursday: "We are telling Turkey that we are convinced such an appearance in Germany is not possible."

Mr Gabriel said he had told his Turkish counterpart weeks ago that "we don't think this is a good idea".

He said that "Mr Erdogan is an important guest at the G20 and will be received with all honours by us there. But we believe everything that goes beyond that is inappropriate at this point in time."

Mr Erdogan last addressed supporters in Germany in May 2015.

Germany has a large ethnic Turkish minority.

Earlier this year, Mr Erdogan accused Germany, and Chancellor Angela Merkel, of "committing Nazi practices" after some local authorities blocked appearances by Turkish ministers hoping to campaign in Germany ahead of Turkey's referendum on expanding presidential powers.

Relations between the two countries have been frayed by a widening range of other issues, including Turkey's jailing of two German journalists.

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Erdogan rally during G20 summit not possible, Germany to tell Turkey - Independent.ie