Kurdish demonstrators hold up a portrait of Recep Tayyip Erdogan showing him as a vampire as they protest in front of the Brandenburg Gate on October 31, 2012 in Berlin, where the Turkish Prime Minister was expected to visit the German Chancellor. The talks of Angela Merkel and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will focus on bilateral ties and the crisis in Syria. AFP PHOTO / JOHN MACDOUGALL