Erdogan urges Turkish Germans to reject Merkel party, coalition partner

Erdogan said ethnic Turks in Germany should not cast their ballots for Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the Social Democratic Party (SPD) of Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel or the Greens, as they were "enemies of Turkey".In a new row set to further escalate an already intensifying crisis, Gabriel immediately slammed Erdogan's comments as an "unprecedented act of interference" in the sovereignty of Germany.