German producers have sparked a dispute by filing an opposition to a Turkish application to grant the döner kebab’s special status at the EU level, initiating a six-month period to resolve disagreements.
A Turkish application to the European Commission for the döner kebab to be given similar EU recognition as the Neapolitan pizza and Spain’s jamon serrano has been opposed by Germany, sources close to the issue have told Euronews.
As reported, in April Türkiye filed an application to register the name döner in Europe so that it can be used only by those producers conforming to the registered production method and product specifications.
The opposition to the propsel is comming from the “Association of Turkish kebab makers in Europe” …
So what? I can’t find the slightest bit of info on who this organization is or who makes it up or who leads it.
I translated the name, try searching for “Verein Türkischer Dönerhersteller in Europa”.
But really the name is self explanatory.
The dish “Döner Kebab” was invented in Germany by Turkish migrants and became very popular. Now a group from Turkey is trying to enforce their definitions and regulations of what a Döner Kebab should be on our dish.
This has nothing to do with German people or government denying power to German-Turks. This is German Turks fighting back against Turkish-Turks trying to interfere with their buisnes.
Like image some activists in Italy would demand that the US government ban the word pizza unless it’s refering to italian-style pizza.