Erdogan’s Nazi References ‘Not Tolerable,’ Merkel Ally Says
- Volker Kauder echoes Merkel in saying Erdogan must stop
- Turkish president calls Europe ‘racist, fascist, oppressive’
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s continued verbal attacks against European leaders are “simply not tolerable,” a top ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel said as tensions between the European Union and the Turkish government began to boil over.
Volker Kauder, the caucus leader of Merkel’s Christian Democratic-led bloc in the lower house of parliament, said Erdogan’s repeated comparisons of European actions to Nazism placed Turkey “far outside” the European mainstream.