Analyze the relationship between 'Merkel' and 'Germany' within the context of the input sentence.
Options: industry, headquarters location, distribution format, owned by

"I think we have used the crisis we are experiencing, through a very disorderly and uncontrolled movement of refugees, to again achieve closer cooperation on many issues, both between the European Union and Turkey, and between Germany and Turkey," Merkel said after meeting the Turkish premier.
headquarters location