Local authorities had called off a rally in Hamburg where Cavusoglu was due to speak, citing fire safety concerns. Police said about 250 opponents of Erdogan gathered near the consulate, some of them brandishing signs that read "Dictator Erdogan -- Hayir," meaning "No" in Turkish. When the Turkish president and his foreign minister say that today's Germany is worse than Nazi Germany, I can't accept it," the former Luxembourg prime minister said. Turkish EU Affairs Minister Omer Celik spoke Tuesday with Michael Roth, state secretary at Germany's foreign ministry, sources in Celick's ministry said. "Turkish-German relations are not local authorities' responsibility but that of the German state," Celik told Roth, according to the sources.

Source: The Local March 08, 2017 08:15 UTC