<p>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lashed out at Europe this week, saying &ldquo;no European in any part of the world can walk safety on the streets&rdquo; if Europe doesn&rsquo;t change its attitude.</p>
<p>The Turkish President is frustrated by what he calls the &ldquo;Nazi methods&rdquo; Germany and the Netherlands are using to disrupt campaign appearances by Turkish ministers seeking to boost support for an April 16th referendum on Turkey&rsquo;s constitution. ;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Turkey is not a country you can pull and push around, not a country whose citizens you can drag on the ground,&rdquo; said Erdogan on Wednesday.</p>
<p>The &ldquo;footsteps of neo-Nazism and extreme racism could be heard in Europe,&rdquo; added Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus.  ;</p>
<p>This week, newly elected German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier used his inaugural speech to warn Erdogan that his vitriol against Europe threatens to destroy everything Turkey has achieved in recent years.  ; ;</p>
<p>&#8220;The way we look (at Turkey) is characterized by worry, that everything that has been built up over years and decades is collapsing,&rdquo; said Steinmeier, adding that the &ldquo;unspeakable Nazi comparisons&rdquo; must stop. ;</p>
<p>There are roughly 1.4 million Turks living in Germany that will be eligible to vote in the upcoming referendum. If approved, the referendum will expand Erdogan&rsquo;s power and transform the way Turkey is governed. ;</p>
<p>The Union of European Turkish Democrats announced Tuesday that Turkish officials would no longer be holding campaign rallies in Germany after a Merkel ally made it clear they were not welcome. ;</p>
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<p>Relations between Europe and Turkey have been strained following President Erdogan&rsquo;s authoritarian and inhumane response ;to the failed coup of July 2016. ;</p>
<p>Erdogan detained 40,000 of his own people in the days and months following the coup, and fired over 100,000 government employees in a paranoid &#8220;purge&#8221; aimed to ;weed out those he suspected of disloyalty.  ; ;</p>
<p>This week, Erdogan instructed Turks living in Europe to multiply at a faster rate: &ldquo;Have five children, not three. You are Europe&rsquo;s future. This is the best answer to the rudeness shown to you, the enmity, the wrongs.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p>Editor&#8217;s note: Turkey is rapidly developing a &#8220;bad actor&#8221; motif. Erdogan is more concerned with the rights of the Islamic population in Europe than he is with Western ideals like democracy, and economic development.  ;From a Western perspective, this is not a good direction.</p>