Angela Merkel and Recep Tayyip Erdogan speak amid a NATO summit in Brussels in May. Photo: NATO/DPATurkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lashed out at Germany on Wednesday, warning that it was "committing political suicide" on the eve of his expected meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel. Erdogan's latest outburst came after Germany refused to allow him to address members of the large ethnic Turkish community in a rally in Germany ahead of the G20 summit. That's a political suicide," Erdogan charged in an interview with weekly magazine Die Zeit. The issue is expected to come up when Erdogan meets Merkel face to face ahead of Friday's Group of 20 summit.

Source: The Local July 05, 2017 15:11 UTC