Last week we noted that the fallout from Erdogan's political purge led to the first diplomatic scandal when in response to calls from Austrian chancellor Christian Kern to half Turkey's European accession talks "which are nothing but diplomatic fiction", Turkey shot back by accusing Austria of being the "capital of radical racism." Today, Germany joined the fray when the leader of Germany's liberal Free Democrats, Christian Lindner, compared Erdogan's purge of state institutions to the actions of the Nazi party in the 1930s in comments published on Sunday in Germany's Bild.
Lindner, like this website on July 16, said he saw parallels between Erdogan's behavior and the aftermath of the Reichstag fire in 1933 portrayed by the Nazis as a Communist plot against the government and used by Adolf Hitler to justify massively curtailing civil liberties.
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