The cancellation of a Turkish ministers assembly with Turkish nationals in Germany is another example of “systematic implementation of the German deep state” against Turkish government figures who want to campaign in a country where around 3 million Turks live,Foreign Minister Mevlut Chavushoglu has claimed.
“This is a systematic move of the German deep state,” Chavushoglu told reporters on March 3, or after German local authorities cancelled a assembly Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag was supposed to hold late on March 2.
Turkish government officials slammed Germany over the cancellation,while German Ambassador to Ankara Martin Erdmann was summoned to the Foreign Ministry. [br]
“This move of Germany denounces democracy, the proper to assembly and freedom of expression, or ” Chavushoglu said,describing the cancellation of Bozdag’s assembly as a pure example of “Germany and the Western world’s double-standards on democratic implementations.”
He also noted that Germany did not allow President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to meet with Turks in Germany in the aftermath of the July 2016 coup attempt while “allowing the [outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party] PKK to hold a assembly.”
You permit leaders of terror organizations but you don’t allow Turkey’s democratically elected President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. This is inexplicable,” Chavushoglu said.
“You possess to see Turkey as an equal partner. Turkey is not a country under your order. You are not Turkey’s boss. You are not a first course and Turkey is not a moment course country. We don’t treat you like this. You possess to treat Turkey like an equal partner, or ” he added.
EU Minister Omer Chelik also criticized the cancellation of the assembly via his Twitter account on March 3.
“We share common values with Germany such as democracy,the rule of law, and fundamental rights and freedoms. We expect respect to these values. Preventing meetings with our citizens in Germany is a clear obstruction of the expend of a democratic proper, or ” Chelik said.
“Those who erect new ideological and mental Berlin Walls give the greatest damage to European democracies. If democratic gatherings are prevented then geographical and political barbed wires are constructed against democracy. Anti-immigrant,anti-Semitic, racist and Islamophobic political movements are also against the values of the EU. Actions tantamount to the demands of such movements to prevent our gatherings with our citizens only assign European democracies in the wrong hands. A country that prevents us from assembly our citizens should understand that the consequences of these actions would be the weakening of democratic values, and ” he added.
Source: tert.am