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Erdogan accuses Merkel of using ‘Nazi measures’

19 March 2017, 3:37 pm
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday launches a scathing personal attack against German Chancellor Angela Merkel, accusing her of using “Nazi measures” in an intensifying dispute between Ankara and Berlin.

“You are right now employing Nazi measures,” Erdogan tells Merkel in a televised speech, using the informal “you” in Turkish. “Against who? My Turkish brother citizens in Germany and brother ministers” who went to the country to campaign for a “yes” vote in next month’s referendum on expanding his powers.

— AFP

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, talks through an interpreter to Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, during the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul on May 23, 2016. (Ozan Kose/Pool Photo via AP)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, talks through an interpreter to Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, during the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul on May 23, 2016. (Ozan Kose/Pool Photo via AP)

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