Turkey wants more rallies in Germany
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TURKEY is planning more rallies in Germany ahead of a crunch referendum in April, its foreign minister said yesterday despite an acrimonious row with Berlin after local authorities banned several campaign events.
Mevlut Cavusoglu said he had already handed a list of the planned rallies to his German counterpart Sigmar Gabriel.
“We expect Germany to solve this problem. We are planning around 30 rallies. We had informed German authorities of them all,” said the minister in quotes carried by private CNN-Turk television.
Turkey and Germany have been at loggerheads this week after local authorities blocked several rallies by Turkish ministers.
On Sunday, Erdogan poured oil on the fire, telling a rally in Istanbul that the blocking of public appearances by his ministers was “not different from the Nazi practices of the past.”
Chancellor Angela Merkel hit back earlier yesterday at the Turkish leader’s Nazi jibe as “sad” and “depressing.”
Cavusoglu stressed it was “out of the question” for Turkey to call the German government Nazi.
“This is a very sensitive issue. We are not calling the current administration Nazi,” he said, clarifying that the current bans “unavoidably remind us the practices during that (Nazi) period.”
Cavusoglu also said that politicians and the German media had referred to Erdogan as a “dictator.”
Turkish politicians are keen to harness votes in Germany, home to a big Turkish community, ahead of an April 16 referendum on whether to create an executive presidency in Turkey.
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