President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday has called German authorities “fascist” for tolerating swastika signs to be drawn on mosques in Germany while reminding trials on neo-Nazi groups targeting the Turkish community have been ongoing for years.
The president also slammed the Germany government ban that prevents defense contractor Rheinmetall from shipping some products to Turkey.
“They call Turkey’s President a ‘dictator’, but when we call them fascist with good reason, the German authorities get offended” Erdogan said.
He questioned whether the authorities have taken any actions against neo-Nazi groups who have drawn swastikas on mosques in the country, and stressed that the German authorities have been reckless towards the NSU (Nationalist Socialist Underground) case.
The neo-Nazi gang NSU is accused of racially motivated murders of eight Turks and a Greek in a bombing in a predominantly Turkish neighborhood and a string of robberies between 2000 and 2006. Agencies