Turkey’s Erdogan Refuses to Back Down in Feud With Germany<br />" Mr. Erdogan said on Friday. that The government who is hiding Turkish terrorists in Germany should first explain this,<br />Turkey said that doesn’t stop these games, we will have to<br />By PATRICK KINGSLEY and MELISSA EDDYJULY 21, 2017<br />ISTANBUL — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey raised the stakes in a long-running diplomatic spat with Germany on Friday, dismissing the threat of an informal German economic embargo<br />and rejecting calls to release several German citizens held in Turkish jails.<br />For his part, Mr. Erdogan is angry that Germany has granted asylum to former Turkish Army officers<br />and other officials accused of playing a role in last year’s coup attempt in Turkey.<br />Members of the Turkish diaspora in Germany were also at the center of a dispute in the spring, when German officials refused to allow Mr. Erdogan’s<br />political party to hold rallies for German-Turks in the run-up to a referendum in April, when Turks voted to expand the president’s powers.<br />" Mr. Unluhisarcikli said. that Turkey is playing a game of brinkmanship with the hope<br />that Germany will back down because that is what has happened in the past,
