Erdogan compares Germany's behavior with Nazi period

YEREVAN, MARCH 6, ARMENPRESS. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized the German leadership on banning the Turkish ministers to hold a campaign in the country ahead of the constitutional referendum, Reuters reports.

Erdogan accused Germany on running Nazi policy.

“Germany, you have no relation whatsoever to democracy and you should know that your current actions are no different to those of the Nazi period”, Erdogan saying at a rally in Istanbul as quoted by Reuters.

He said this issue will be regularly raised during international-level meetings.

“We no longer want to see the Nazi world, the fascist regimes. I thought that German left it, but it turns out that I was wrong”, he said.

Turkey’s Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag had been due to address expatriates in Gaggenau in support of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's controversial reforms. But local authorities withdrew permission for the rally, saying the planned venue was not big enough.

Bekir Bozdag condemned the decision stating that what has happened is unacceptable. He also cancelled his meeting with German Justice Minister.Later Turkey's Foreign Ministry has summoned the German ambassador MartinErdmann in Ankara.