"How does that work, you have the right to call Erdogan a 'dictator' but Erdogan doesn't have the right to call you 'fascist' and 'Nazi'?" he said during an interview yesterday with the CNN-Turk and Kanal D television channels.
Relations between Turkey and Europe have been severely strained since Turkish ministers were thwarted from campaigning on the continent for a 'yes' vote in next month's referendum on expanding Erdogan's powers.
Ankara has said such behaviour was reminiscent of Nazi Germany and also raised alarm over what it sees as rising racism and Islamophobia.
Erdogan, who has also taken similar aim at the Netherlands, didn't sound conciliatory.
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"They accuse me then they speak of Erdogan as a 'dictator," he continued, still referring to himself in the third person.
"So I'll continue to address them in these terms," he added.
Erdogan again denounced the cancellation of his ministers' trips to European countries with a large Turkish diaspora ahead of the referendum.
On Wednesday he warned that Europeans risk being unsafe on the world's streets, as the crisis between Ankara and the EU showed no signs of abating.
Erdogan said he was "good friends" with Steinmeier and "deplored" his comments.
He added that there could be a "period of review" of Turkey relations with the European Union, while stressing the importance of economic ties with the bloc, his country's biggest trading partner.
Turkey is officially an EU-candidate nation but its accession process has been practically blocked for years.
He said that an EU-Turkey agreement on migrants, aimed at reducing the numbers reaching Europe from Africa and the Middle East, would be part of an "A to Z" review of government policy to begin after the April 16 referendum.
While he is a regular critic of Washington over its support for the Kurdish YPG militia operating in Syria it was the first time he had expressed his unhappiness with Moscow's stance
Turkey summoned the Russian charge d'affaires on Wednesday and sent him another message Thursday to convey "deep unease" over two incidents in Kurdish militia-controlled Syria, Ankara said.
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