Turkey has summoned the German ambassador to Ankara to condemn what it called a rally organised by supporters of Kurdish militants in Cologne, the Turkish foreign ministry said.
"We condemn the permission given for the organisation of an activity by the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) terror group's extensions in Germany and their spreading terror propaganda there today in Cologne," the ministry said on Saturday.
"We have expressed our reaction in a strong way to Germany's ambassador to Ankara who was summoned to the ministry."
The ministry criticised German authorities for allowing posters of the PKK's imprisoned leader, Abdullah Ocalan, to be unfurled and messages from leaders of the group to be read out during the rally.
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German-Turkish ties have plunged to an all-time low since last year's failed coup against president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the subsequent crackdown in Turkey which has seen more than 50,000 people arrested.
Relations further deteriorated after the detention of several German citizens including Deniz Yucel, a correspondent for Die Welt newspaper, prompting Berlin to announce a full review of relations and to sharpen its travel advisory.
Mr Erdogan has in return accused Germany of sheltering coup plotters, as well as Kurdish militants, and demanded their extradition.
The Turkish foreign ministry on Saturday said Germany's "double standard approach is worrying in the global fight against terror".
"We are inviting Germany to demonstrate a principled approach against all forms of terror," it added.
The outlawed PKK has waged an insurgency in Kurdish-majority south-east Turkey since 1984.
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Estimates of the number of deaths caused by the famine range from 400,000 to 1 million, according to a document prepared for the UK House of Lords in 2024.
It has been claimed that the policies of the Ethiopian government, which took control after deposing Emperor Haile Selassie in a military-led revolution in 1974, contributed to the scale of the famine.
Dr Miriam Bradley, senior lecturer in humanitarian studies at the University of Manchester, has argued that, by the early 1980s, “several government policies combined to cause, rather than prevent, a famine which lasted from 1983 to 1985. Mengistu’s government imposed Stalinist-model agricultural policies involving forced collectivisation and villagisation [relocation of communities into planned villages].
The West became aware of the catastrophe through a series of BBC News reports by journalist Michael Buerk in October 1984 describing a “biblical famine” and containing graphic images of thousands of people, including children, facing starvation.
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Bob Geldof, singer with the Irish rock group The Boomtown Rats, formed Band Aid in response to the horrific images shown in the news broadcasts.
With Midge Ure of the band Ultravox, he wrote the hit charity single Do They Know it’s Christmas in December 1984, featuring a string of high-profile musicians.
Following the single’s success, the idea to stage a rock concert evolved.
Live Aid was a series of simultaneous concerts that took place at Wembley Stadium in London, John F Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, the US, and at various other venues across the world.
The combined event was broadcast to an estimated worldwide audience of 1.5 billion.
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