MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The Rheinpfalz newspaper reported, citing Gabriel, that on Sunday night unknown people had left messages with threats on an answering machine in a dentist clinic where the minister's wife works.
"The way Erdogan does this [criticizes the minister] motivates some people to try to harass and bother my wife… When a head of state starts to act against an individual, unfortunately there are people who think they have the right to organize oppression of this individual," Gabriel was quoted as saying by the Welt newspaper.
The relations between Berlin and Ankara have soured in recent months after Germany banned several Turkish officials from coming into the country to campaign for Erdogan ahead of a referendum that granted him more executive powers.
