President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused an arrested newspaper reporter of being a "German agent." Multiple German cities have banned rallies of support for Erdogan's presidential referendum. As the spat between Ankara and Berlin becomes increasingly angry, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Deniz Yucel, a Die Welt reporter with dual nationality, a "German agent" and a member of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). "This person hid in the German embassy as a member of the PKK and a German agent for one month," Erdogan told an awards ceremony in Istanbul on Friday. The chancellor respondsErdogan and his Foreign Ministry have also expressed outrage over decisions on multiple German cities to cancel rallies by Turkish officials.

Source: Egypt Independent March 04, 2017 10:15 UTC