Shortly after his remarks, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim had cancelled a planned meeting with Gabriel, citing a "busy work schedule."
Ankara considers that retreat of German military installations will not have serious consequences for Turkey.
On Tuesday, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said Germany could "remove its troops however it wants" and the decision has "nothing to do with Turkey." Withdrawal of German soldiers from Incirlik airbase in southern Turkey would be of little consequence, he stated.
It is not the first time that Ankara refused to allow German parliamentarians from visiting their troops at Incirlik. Turkey initially made this decision in retaliation against the adoption by the German parliament in June 2016 of a resolution referring to the killing of Armenians during the Ottoman era in 1915 as "genocide."
Tensions have also heightened ahead of an April 16 referendum for constitutional amendment, as Germany shut its doors to Turkish government members who wanted to campaign for nearly three million Turks living in the country.
President Erdogan resembled the decision of German authorities to "Nazi methods of the past" inflaming further anti-Turkey rhetoric in Germany.
Another source of tension between Berlin and Ankara is the latter's accusation that the German government fails to take necessary measures against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) activities in German territories, even blamed some German lawmakers who applied to visit their troops in Turkey of having links with group.
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