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on Friday accused Germany of "aiding and harboring terror" and claimed a journalist who was detained this week on terror-related charges was a German agent.
"They need to be put on trial for aiding and harboring terror," Erdogan said, criticizing German authorities who had allowed outlawed Kurdish leaders to speak yet had blocked rallies where Turkish ministers sought to address the Turkish community.
The president, speaking in Istanbul, also claimed Deniz Yucel, a correspondent for Germany’s Die Welt newspaper, who was detained on Monday, was a "German agent."
Earlier on Friday,
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accused Germany of working for a "No" vote ahead of an April referendum on whether to boost President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s powers in an executive presidency.
"They don’t want Turkey to campaign here, they are working for a ’No’. They want to get in the way of a strong Turkey," Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told news hounds in Ankara after German local authorities blocked rallies where Turkish ministers were due to speak.
German Govt Says Not Involved in Decision to Scrap Turkish Rallies
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] The German government Friday denied having anything to do with municipal authorities’ decisions to block rallies by Turkish ministers to promote a referendum on expanding President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First’s powers."That is a decision the federal government has absolutely no influence on ... because it falls under local or state jurisdiction on which we have zero influence," said foreign ministry front man Martin Schaefer.
Dutch govt opposed to planned Turkish referendum rally in Rotterdam
[Ynet] The Dutch government said on Friday it opposed plans by Turkish authorities to hold a referendum campaign rally in Rotterdam, saying it would inform Ankara of its opposition to the "undesirable" move.
Earlier, the leader of an association of Dutch Turks said Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was planning to attend the March 11 rally, hoping to persuade the Netherlands' hundreds of thousands of dual citizens to vote for a new constitution that would give Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First greater powers.
| Update from Al Ahram at 11:55 a.m. ET: |