Turkey EU Minister's Comments Spur Angry Reaction From Germany's Merkel

Turkey EU Minister's Comments Spur Angry Reaction From Germany's Merkel

By Alexander C. Kaufman | June 21 2013 10:03 AM

Egemen Bağiş doesn’t like criticism.

Turkey’s minister of European Union affairs lambasted the Economist magazine last week for its editorial comparing Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to a despotic sultan of yore. Now, he has taken to bashing German Chancellor Angela Merkel for saying she was “appalled” by the police crackdown on protesters in Turkey.

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