ANKARA, July 21 -- Turkey has accused Germany of harboring "terrorists" following German threats to slap sanctions and to issue travel advisory for its citizens amid a violent escalating row over Turkey's arrest of human rights activists.
Germany told its citizens on Thursday to exercise caution when traveling to Turkey and warned that it might cut off export insurance guarantees and other forms of economic cooperation, the latest step in the deterioration of relations between the two key NATO allies and close economic partners.
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel cut short a vacation to denounce on Thursday the arrests in Turkey of several human rights activists, including a German citizen, Peter Steudtner, a representative of Amnesty International. "We are reorienting our policy toward Turkey," Gabriel said.
Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called Gabriel's remarks "threats and blackmail," which were not "worthy of a serious country." He accused Germany of harboring terrorists by "providing shelter" to the Kurdistan Workers' Party and to the followers of the self-exiled Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, accused by Ankara of plotting a failed coup attempt last July.
The harsh exchange was the latest step in the worsening of relations between two countries with deep economic and demographic ties. Even before the coup attempt in Turkey last year, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had begun to disturb many German officials and also other western leaders.
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