Turkey's Erdoğan says 'specter of fascism haunting streets of Europe'

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on March 15 said the "specter of fascism" was haunting the streets of Europe, comparing the treatment of non-Europeans there to that of the Jews in World War II.

"The specter of fascism is haunting the streets of Europe," Erdoğan  said a rally in the inner Aegean province of Afyon.

   
"The Jews were treated the same in the past," he added, referring to the persecution of Jews under Nazi Germany, which carried out a systematic plan to annihilate Europe's Jews in the Holocaust.
 
"Europe is heading towards being drowned in its own fears," Erdoğan said, referring to the rise of the far right in the continent over the last years.
 
"Turkophobia is mounting. Islamophobia is mounting. They are even scared of migrants who take shelter."
 
"They are scared of everything which is not from there, they are hostile to everything which is not from there," Erdoğan said.