Defiant Turkish FM tells Germany not to harangue in Hamburg speech

“Please, don’t give us lessons in tellurian rights and democracy,” a apportion said, as he spoke to a throng of some 200 Turkish supervision supporters collected during a chateau of their country’s consul in a northern city of Hamburg.

The comments came after German internal authorities criminialized rallies that Turkish officials were due to residence to lift support among ostracise electorate for a referendum in Apr on boosting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s powers.

“Germany contingency not meddle in a elections and a referendum,” he said.

“Those who wish to contend ‘Yes’ in a referendum are being blocked and that is not right.”

Local authorities had called off a convene in Hamburg where Cavusoglu was due to speak, citing glow reserve concerns.

Police pronounced about 250 opponents of Erdogan collected nearby a consulate, some of them brandishing signs that review “Dictator Erdogan — Hayir,” definition “No” in Turkish.

Cavusoglu pronounced he would accommodate Wednesday with his German reflection Sigmar Gabriel, whom he called a “friend”, during a breakfast in Berlin and revisit a tourism fair.

Tensions have been rocketing between NATO allies Turkey and Germany over a past week after a termination of several rallies where Turkish cupboard ministers were due to whip adult support for a “yes” opinion in a Apr 16th referendum.

‘Great fear’

Erdogan escalated a predicament over a weekend, contrast a cancellations to “Nazi practices,” sketch a pointy response from Berlin.

He also warned Germany not to retard him from creation an coming if he wished.

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s bureau resolutely deserted a Nazi taunt as “absurd and out of place”.

Cavusoglu pronounced a convene cancellations were “unacceptable” and suggestive of practices in a run-up to World War II.

He criticised Germany and several other European countries including a Netherlands, where politicians including Prime Minister Mark Rutte have cursed Cavusoglu’s skeleton to attend a identical convene in Rotterdam.

“We are in a state of good fear,” Cavusoglu said. “If we can't stop a allege of extremist parties, Europe will conduct (back) to a pre-World War II period.”

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker Tuesday cursed Erdogan’s “Nazi” comments in an talk with Luxembourg’s RTL television.

“I am astounded by what we hear from Turkey. When a Turkish boss and his unfamiliar apportion contend that today’s Germany is worse than Nazi Germany, we can’t accept it,” a former Luxembourg primary apportion said.

“Our relatives and grandparents lived by a Nazi occupation,” pronounced Juncker, who was innate in 1954.

Turkish EU Affairs Minister Omer Celik spoke Tuesday with Michael Roth, state secretary during Germany’s unfamiliar ministry, sources in Celick’s method said.

“Turkish-German family are not internal authorities’ shortcoming though that of a German state,” Celik told Roth, according to a sources.

“We trust this is a systematic barrier to a government.”

‘Embarrassing’

Germany is home to a sizeable Turkish community, with some 1.4 million means to opinion in Turkey — a intensity electoral goldmine in a Erdogan government’s debate to emanate an executive presidency.

Cavusoglu indicted countries “which we hold as friends” of plainly holding sides, slamming it “unacceptable” and “embarrassing”.

Turkish-German ties have been stretched given a immeasurable crackdown launched by Ankara after a unsuccessful manoeuvre bid to reject Erdogan in Jul 2016.

Mass detentions have dumbfounded Europe, that has urged Ankara to honour freedoms. Critics contend a clampdown has targeted opponents of a government, not merely coup-plotters.

Adding to a severity Tuesday, Turkish Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci pronounced he had non-stop a box opposite German journal Bild for “seriously insulting” Erdogan and himself in a report.

The detain of Deniz Yucel, a match for Germany’s Die Welt newspaper, has also sparked an cheer in Berlin after he was charged in Istanbul with swelling militant promotion and inciting hatred.