Erdoğan accuses Germany of abetting terrorists

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has accused Germany of abetting terrorists while vowing that he will continue to make "Nazi" comparisons until Berlin hands over thousands of "terror criminals" that Turkey has long been demanding from the country. 

"Germany disregarded our three million citizens living there. This negligence shown to us from a country with which we have very advanced relationship is hard to accept. At present, Germany is abetting terrorists. I speak frankly. And they go crazy when I say 'They resurrected Nazism.' Why are you going crazy? That's what you are doing," Erdoğan said in an interview with private broadcaster A Haber on late April 11. 

"You will harbor and feed thousands of PKK [Kurdistan Workers' Party] members; I will give you 4,500 cases [about them] and you will examine these cases but won't hand them over to me. But then you will come and will ask one agent-terrorist from me," Erdoğan said, referring to German Chancellor Angela Merkel over a Turkish-German journalist currently arrested in Turkey. 

Merkel paid a visit to Turkey early February, where she demanded the charges filed against journalist Deniz Yücel to be dropped. Yücel was arrested on charges of making terror propaganda. Erdoğan said Yücel was sheltered at the German Consulate in Istanbul for nearly a month before going to the police and being arrested. 

"She defends this dual German-Turkish citizen in such a way. I give you 4,500 dossiers. Why don't you try these people and hand over those who have to be given to us? They are PKK terrorists. Why don't you give them? I will continue to say that you are implementing Nazism as long as you don't give them," Erdoğan said. 

"I said this to them. I say openly here because I told them to...