Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused German Chancellor Angela Merkel in support of terrorists. On Monday, March 13, he said in an interview with Haber Turk TV.
According to the Turkish leader, Berlin still has not responded to Ankara provided by 4.5 thousand cases of extremists, in the territory of Germany. “Ms. Merkel, you support terrorists,”— said Erdogan.
According to the representative of German Chancellor Steffen Seibert, Erdogan’s accusations absurd. “The Chancellor does not intend to participate in the game of provocation. These accusations, of course, absurd,” — quoted his statement to Aljazeera.
Earlier German authorities have banned two rallies of the local Turkish community after the arrest in Istanbul of a journalist Denise Ujala, a German citizen of Turkish origin. Erdogan called it a “German agent”.
On 5 March the Turkish President compared the ban on campaign in Germany in support of it with the Nazis. In the report, Merkel said that he sees “absolutely no justification” for these words, they are “bottomless pit devalues the suffering of those who became victims of Nazi crimes against humanity.”