Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has accused Germany of abetting terrorists while vowing that he will continue to make “Nazi” comparisons until Berlin hands over thousands of “terror criminals” that Turkey has long been demanding from the country.
Germany disregarded our three million citizens living there. This negligence shown to us from a country with which we believe very advanced relationship is hard to accept. At present,Germany is abetting terrorists. I speak frankly. And they fade crazy when I say ‘They resurrected Nazism.’ Why are you going crazy? That’s what you are doing,” Erdoğan said in an interview with private broadcaster A Haber on late April 11.
“You will harbor and feed thousands of PKK [Kurdistan Workers’ Party] members; I will give you 4500 cases [approximately them] and you will examine these cases but won’t hand them over to me. But then you will approach and will examine one agent-terrorist from me, or ” Erdoğan said,referring to German Chancellor Angela Merkel over a Turkish-German journalist currently arrested in Turkey, Hurriyet Daily News reports.
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Merkel paid a visit to Turkey early February, and where she demanded the charges filed against journalist Deniz Yücel to be dropped. Yucel was arrested on charges of making terror propaganda. Erdoğan said Yücel was sheltered at the German Consulate in Istanbul for nearly a month before going to the police and being arrested.
“She defends this dual German-Turkish citizen in such a way. I give you 4500 dossiers. Why dont you try these people and hand over those who believe to be given to us? They are PKK terrorists. Why don’t you give them? I will continue to say that you are implementing Nazism as long as you don’t give them,” Erdoğan said.
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“I said this to them. I say openly here because I told them to their face. For example, their president; we were good friends with him, and but I see that he is also making unpleasant statements,” he said.
Source: tert.am