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Turkey insists on holding rallies in Germany

Monday, 20 March 2017 2:55 AM [ Last Update: Monday, 20 March 2017 2:55 AM ]

Kurdish protesters demonstrate on their way to the Kurdish spring festival Newroz with posters reading "No to dictatorship" in the city center of Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on March 18, 2017.

Rahshan Saglam
Press TV, Istanbul

Turkey says it wants to hold campaign rallies in Germany ahead of its upcoming referendum on constitutional changes. This, a day after supporters of the outlawed group Kurdistan Workers’ Party held an anti-Turkey rally in the German city of Frankfurt. Tension has been rising between Turkey and some EU countries after a number of Turkish politicians were barred from campaigning in Europe. Our Istanbul correspondent, Rahshan Saglam, brings us more on the story.

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