Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Angela Merkel. Photo: DPATurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday compared anti-Turkey statements by German politicians to "Nazism" after Chancellor Angela Merkel said she would seek to end talks on Ankara's accession to the EU. This is fascism," Erdogan said, reacting to comments made by Merkel and Martin Schulz, her Social Democratic rival, during a televised debate ahead of elections on September 24th. Erdogan called the EU's stance towards Ankara's accession bid "hypocrisy and political immorality," and urged Brussels to make a clear decision "at once" on the process. Erdogan insisted that Turkey had not moved away from its "strategic goal of EU membership" and was fulfilling its duties.

Source: The Local September 06, 2017 13:41 UTC