Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses a meeting in Istanbul on Sunday, the same day he said that German government practices are "no different than the Nazi ones of the past." Yasin Bulbul/AP hide caption
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Cabinet says it is scrapping the controversial law against insulting foreign heads of state. Markus Schreiber/AP hide caption
Germany's prime-time television news show quotes Merkel's silence over the weekend. ARD hide caption
President Obama walks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Sept. 6, 2013. Relations between the two allies are strained after documents leaked by Edward Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor, suggested the agency had spied on Merkel and other world leaders. Ivan Sekretarev/AP hide caption