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Turkish PM Erdogan at site of fire which killed 9 Turks

(7 Feb 2008) 1. Wide of people gathered outside burnt house in Ludwigshafen 2. People in trees, others holding Turkish flags 3. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arriving at site with wife (wearing red veil), UPSOUND: crowd cheering 4. Zoom in Erdogan waving to crowd; zoom out to wide of site 5. Close of veiled women 6. Close of crowd, people filming and taking pictures 7. Zoom out of Erdogan speaking to crowd 8. Erdogan signing condolence book, zoom out 9. Relatives and survivors of fire 10. Erdogan kissing survivors and leaving STORYLINE Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday visited the site of a weekend blaze in southwest Germany that killed nine people. Erdogan made the stop during his current official visit to the country. He offered condolences to the injured and victims' families, and urged caution among Turks in the country who have been quick to suspect a racial motive behind the blaze. The burnt building, in the southwestern city of Ludwigshafen, was inhabited by two ethnic Turkish families and all nine victims were Turkish citizens. Several thousand people, mostly Turks, gathered at the perimeter of the site, and cheered loudly as the prime minister arrived. Earlier, police searched for the cause of the fire that killed five children and four adults on Sunday afternoon, amid heightened tensions between the Turkish community and German officials. The blaze has unleashed a wave of criticism from some of Germany's 2.7 (m) million-strong Turkish community, while newspapers in Turkey have charged that German rescue workers failed to respond swiftly enough and blamed the incident on far-right extremists. Erdogan fought to counter such claims, calling on German and Turkish media to use restraint in their reporting and expressly thanking German rescue services for their efforts. Earlier in the day, Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble urged calm, expressing understanding for the Turks' outrage while insisting that Germans were equally concerned by the high number of fatalities. Police found graffiti scrawled on the building - the German word for hate, "Hass" - next to the entrance to a ground-floor Turkish cultural centre in the building. But they said it had been scrawled well before the fire and was not thought to be related to the blaze. Erdogan said Turkey was confident that German officials would carry out a swift and thorough investigation and said four experts had travelled with him to Germany to take part in the probe. The blaze comes amid a downturn in German-Turkish relations, soured by tightened immigration laws in Berlin and a recent state election campaign by a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party, Roland Koch, blaming a rise in youth crime on recent immigrants. As part of their investigation, police are working with information from two girls, ages 8 and 9, who said they saw a man setting fire to something with his lighter and then throwing it next to a baby carriage in the hallway of the building. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...