{"id":8908,"date":"2017-03-05T15:12:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T15:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/turkeys-erdogan-makes-nazi-jibe-over-germany-rally-ban\/"},"modified":"2017-03-05T15:12:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T15:12:49","slug":"turkeys-erdogan-makes-nazi-jibe-over-germany-rally-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/turkeys-erdogan-makes-nazi-jibe-over-germany-rally-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey&#8217;s Erdogan makes Nazi jibe over Germany rally ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan makes a speech during a Women&#039;s Day rally in Istanbul, Turkey, 5 March 2017.\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/A6F8\/production\/_94944724_hi038305117.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Reuters<figcaption>Image caption                                      President Erdogan made his remarks at a Women&#039;s Day rally in Istanbul                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">Turkey&#039;s president has compared German officials to Nazis, in the latest escalation in a war of words.<\/p>\n<p>Recep Tayyip Erdogan hit out after German authorities cancelled rallies designed to woo ethic Turkish voters in Germany ahead of a key referendum.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Your practices are not different from the Nazi practices of the past,&quot; Mr Erdogan said.<\/p>\n<p>About 1.4m Turks in Germany can vote in the April referendum, which could give Mr Erdogan sweeping new powers.<\/p>\n<p>Voters will be asked whether they back a new constitution, which would transform the country from a parliamentary republic to a presidential one.<\/p>\n<p>That would give Mr Erdogan, as president, new powers over the budget, appointment of ministers and judges, and the power to dismiss parliament, among others.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why is Turkey holding a referendum?<\/li>\n<li>Turkey says &#039;No&#039; to saying &#039;No&#039;, ahead of its referendum<\/li>\n<li>Is Turkey still a democracy?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mr Erdogan has come under intense international criticism amid a far-reaching crackdown on his opponents since a failed military coup last year. Dozens of Turkish journalists and writers have been arrested, and a large number of diplomats and soldiers have sought asylum elsewhere. <\/p>\n<p>Against this background, Turkey is targeting the millions of expatriate voters eligible to cast a ballot in the controversial poll - including the 1.4m in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>However, officials have withdrawn permission for rallies in Gaggenau, Cologne and Frechen.<\/p>\n<p>The Gaggenau authorities said there was insufficient space for the rally, while Cologne officials said they had been misled about the purpose of the event.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the German authorities at a rally in Istanbul on Sunday, Mr Erdogan said: &quot;I thought it&#039;s been a long time since Germany left (Nazi practices). We are mistaken.&quot; <\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Getty Images<figcaption>Image caption                                      The doors of the planned Gaggenau venue remained closed - but adorned with messages supporting press freedom                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The cancellations of the rallies in Germany came as a German-Turkish journalist was detained in Turkey, accused of being a member of the outlawed Kurdish militant group PKK.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Erdogan has called the journalist - who works for well-established German newspaper Die Welt - a &quot;German agent&quot; and accused Germany of &quot;aiding and harbouring terror&quot;. <\/p>\n<p>German officials said such allegations were absurd.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, the Austrian chancellor has called for an EU-wide ban on political campaigning by Turkish politicians.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;A collective EU response to prevent such campaign events would make sense so that individual countries like Germany where appearances are forbidden don&#039;t end up being pressured by Turkey,&quot;  Christian Kern told German newspaper Welt am Sonntag.<\/p>\n<p>He also said the decades-long talks over Turkey joining the EU should be abandoned because the country has been &quot;trampling on human rights and basic democratic rights&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We can&#039;t continue negotiating about membership with a country that has been distancing itself from democratic norms and rule-of-law principles for years.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Austria has previously said Mr Erdogan cannot campaign in the country over the referendum.<\/p>\n<p><a rel='nofollow' href=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-39173296 target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright ReutersImage caption President Erdogan made his remarks at a Women&#039;s Day rally in Istanbul Turkey&#039;s president has compared German officials to Nazis, in the latest escalation in a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}