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The Turkish leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, personally accused German chancellor Angela Merkel of being a Nazi at a rally in Istanbul on Sunday (19 March).
“You are right now employing Nazi measures. Against who? My Turkish brother citizens in Germany and brother ministers,” he said.
He accused Germany of backing the Kurdish separatist PKK group, which both the EU and Turkey have designated as a terrorist entity, saying “the masked ball is over” on Turkey-EU relations.
He also accused Deniz Yucel, a Turkish-German journalist, of being a Kurdish “terror agent”.
Yucel was working for Germany's Die Welt newspaper in Turkey until his arrest last month after a story that embarrassed Erdogan’s son-in-law.
Erdogan said on Saturday that he would “approve … without any hesitation” the reinstatement of the death penalty in Turkey if MPs did “the necessary thing” in voting for it.
He had said on Friday that Turkish families living in Europe should have “not just three but five children” each, in order to “stake a claim”.
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