The state visit by Joachim Gauck in Turkey is characterized by sudden sharp tones. The German had dangers for democracy complains now responded an angry Prime Minister Erdogan.

The criticism of the German head of state does not want to leave sitting on the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The head of government raises Joachim Gauck right to have interfered with his warning about the lack of democracy in the internal affairs of Turkey.

“I told the German president that we will never tolerate his interference in the internal affairs of our country ,” Erdogan said on Tuesday , according to the Anatolia news agency . With regard to the instructive words in his view, the former pastor Gauck Erdogan added at a parliamentary group meeting of his AK Party in Ankara added : ” The German president probably thinks he is still a pastor. ”

” To us, he says something else, and at the ODTÜ (Technical University of the Middle East ), he then says very strange things ,” said Erdogan in a live televised speech.

During his two -hour meeting with the President Gauck have mentioned things that were apparently whispered to him in Germany . Although the Turkish side, this misinformation has invalidated with ” concrete examples ” , the head of state was gone and had the same things said publicly . Erdogan told Gauck past as a clergyman : ” Based on this understanding , he looks at the things That will not do This is ugly . . . ”

Erdogan Reply To Gauck:Still in Turkey

President Joachim Gauck still holding on in Turkey. He praised on Tuesday the Turkish-German University in Istanbul as a milestone in the relations between the two countries. He opened the college in Istanbul’s Beykoz with his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul. It’s the last day of the Federal President in Turkey.

Gauck had in his campus speech on Monday criticized with unusually clear words the democratic deficit in Turkey and warned the Erdogan government before isolation. He watched with concern tendencies to limit the rule of law and separation of powers. “I confess: These voices scare me – even and especially when freedom of expression and press freedom are restricted.”

Erdogan Reply To Gauck:”Polite and professional”

Directly ahead of the speech, the President had met with Erdogan to dinner at his residence . There Gauck brought several times his concern about restrictions on freedom of expression and interference with the judiciary to language .

Erdogan heard objections participants , according to the left and dismissed the concerns. So he had nothing to do with the Twitter ban , it may cause the prosecution of justice. Turkey’s situation is different , as it represented to the outside. Gauck and Erdogan had ” polite and professional ” talk to each other , but is limited to the thing and hardly talked about personal, it was said. The violent reaction Erdogan now shows that Turkish Prime Minister considers the criticisms Gauck anything but relaxed.

Erdogan is internationally recognized for almost a year in the criticism. The statewide Gezi protests that began months ago about eleven , he had to knock down a massive police violence. On corruption investigation, he responded with the displacement of many police officers and prosecutors. With the AKP majority in Parliament laws stricter control of the Internet and to extend the powers of the secret MIT were adopted .

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