German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who spoke to the weekly newspaper Bild am Sonntag last week, said that an independent Kurdish state would destabilize the region further and would probably cause new tension between Iraq and its neighbors. He reminded that Kurds also lived in Turkey and Syria, and expressed his hope that the territorial integrity of Iraq would be maintained.On the other hand, during a statement he delivered to Die Welt newspaper on Saturday, Karl-Georg Wellmann, a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), said that he was open up to an independent Kurdish state in northern Iraq. Both of these statements that were verbalized by the representatives of two different wings of the German government are important. They reveal the critical economic and political reason why Germany has always adopted a negative policy toward Turkey, including its involvement in the EU. Before going into the details of the matter, I need to say that the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD) is a part of the administration.The SPD, which hails from an important historical and political background, dissents not only to German, but to all European politics. Today, however, SPD is no longer a party that gives voice to the interests of the working class. Worse still, it pursues obscurant financial capitalism, which went down in history with its bloodthirsty politics in the 19th and 20th centuries.Steinmeier, who withstands to the selfdetermination right of Kurds, certainly knows that defending this right is one of the fundamental principles in the history of the SPD. But today, SPD, which has become an enthusiast for the Fourth Reich and has lost its conscience, contradicts with the key principles of the party.The Middle East has turned into a blood bath in which Kurds, Palestinians, Turkmens and Yazidis are suffering. However, SPD adopts the same discourse as those who created this chaos, and cannot display a firm stance against the Palestinian question by following the same path as CDU. Today, there is no difference between SPD and CDU as both are on the verge of taking Europe to an economic and political collapse. Moreover, Germany, which voted for Jean-Claude Juncker for the presidency of the European Commission, aims at cutting the political relation of the U.K. with Europe and to steer Europe on its own as it was before World War II. It also strives to hamper the expansion of Europe in order to establish a new EU that is centered on Germany. Obviously, this is not a union in the real sense, but rather the dream of Germany for a renewed Reich. Since the beginning, Germany did not firmly stand against the Eurasian Union project of Russia, which annexed Crimea and interfered in Ukraine to this end. Because, Germany does not want Europe to meet its energy requirement through such projects as Southern Gas Corridor (SGC), which will bring Turkey, the Caspian Sea Region and Kurdistan to the forefront.Today, the EU and U.K. are working on how they will minimize their dependency on Russia in terms of commercial transit and energy until 2030, which Germany will certainly try to prevent. Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a large integration Project that will frustrate Germany. I need to say that TTIP is only possible with middle and southern commercial transits that center on Turkey, and go between the Asian Pacific and Europe.TTIP will conclusively be established when a railway line, which can also be defined as the Middle Corridor, starting from South Korea, passing through China, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, the Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan, Georgia and finally reaching Europe is completed.Moreover, this line, which will also pass through Turkey and Iran, will meet the Southern way, and will usher in a new era. This great integration is the only way out for Europe, and it is not for the benefit of Germany.Revisiting energy, in 2013, the EU, which consumed 560 billion cubic meters of natural gas, produced 200 billion cubic meters of natural gas. It closed this gap by importing 360 billion cubic meters of it. This indicates that the EU depends on import for 64 percent of its energy. The figures show that the EU's consumption of natural gas in 2030 will hit 760 million as they close nuclear and coal plants.This shows that their dependency on imports will increase to some 80 percent. In short, in 2030, the EU will have to import 240 billion cubic meters of gas. There are two ways for the EU to close its energy deficit: it will meet its requirement either from Russia or through the Southern Gas Corridor. There is not a third alternative.The Trans-Anatolian gas pipeline (TANAP) is the most important part of SGC, which will take Azerbaijani, Middle Eastern and Levantine reservoirs to Europe through Turkey. This is a big frustration for Germany. If both the TTIP and the SGC come into operation simultaneously, the secret partnership between Russia and Germany will come to an end, and Turkey will move ahead of Germany in the market and energy surveillance. That is why Steinmeier stands against the Kurds achieving the right to self-determination.