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Erdem Arda Güneş is an Istanbul based political analyst. After graduating from University of Ankara's Political Sciences Faculty, International Relations department he started working as a politics/diplomacy reporter for Hürriyet Daily News. He received journalism education at the Berkeley and Minnesota Universities in 2013. He did interviews for various national and international media outlets focusing on diplomacy, politics and arts. Now works as a press advisor and political analyst for an international organization.
Why Erdoğan Accuses Germany Of Nazi Practices
The rising tension between Berlin and Ankara has moved to a new phase with the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s latest accusations against Germany over the rally ban.
'We don't want to see the Nazi world anymore. We don't want to see their fascist actions,” he said on Sunday in Istanbul.
No, it's not a joke.
He also accuses Berlin of “aiding and abetting” terror, referring the arrestment of Deniz Yücel, a German–Turkish journalist for Die Welt.
Yücel's arrest has jolted relations between Turkey, the biggest jail for journalists, according to a Committee to Protect Journalists’ report, and Germany. Erdoğan said the dual German–Turkish national was a "German agent" and a member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK.
Also, the Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu blamed “the German deep state” for banning the Turkish officials’ rallies in Germany.
“This is a systematic move of the German deep state. This move of Germany denounces democracy, the right to assembly and freedom of expression,” he said.
Austria had previously said Erdoğan cannot campaign in the country over the referendum.
But … what is all this fuss really about?
There are around 1.4 million Turks who are eligible to vote in Turkish elections living in Germany. These traditionally offer stronger-than-average support for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP).
Erdoğan’s years of efforts will be tested on April 16. And the polls show the “No” votes are as high as the “Yes” votes.
Erdoğan, who has been accused by critics of increasingly authoritarian tendencies, is holding the referendum to gain more constitutional powers, which is said to be abolishing the check and balances system in the country. And he has no patience for losing even a single “Yes” vote.
That is why Erdoğan will make any move to win the referendum and become Turkey’s first “omnipotent” president. He even calls on German–Turks to vote yes for his strong presidency despite their "Nazi officials".
while we tend to focus on the daily shenanigans of Erdogan, we shall not forget that we was triggered to cancel the peace treaty with the PKK as the Kurdish people gained international recognition by successfully holding IS in check.
Since then everything which happened suits his (pathological?) direction for more power.
Btw, the Germans are so used to be called Nazis, we can't be bothered, really. What concerns the Germans is the fact that we find it hard to watch as peoples/countries are falling into the same ever so obvious trap: thought control, press control, juristic control, feeding divide and hate ...