Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu | Jean-Christophe Verhaegen/AFP via Getty Images Turkey: ‘We may cancel’ EU migration deals Comments come after Turkish President Erdoğan said foreigners are treated by the EU the same way Jewish people were in the past.

Ankara "may cancel" the refugee agreements it struck with the EU to alleviate the migrant crisis, Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu warned Wednesday, Reuters reported.

Çavuşoğlu said the government was reconsidering both the 2013 deal that sees Turkey take back migrants who travel illegally to the EU, and the 2016 refugee deal, under which it prevents refugees leaving its shores and crossing to Greece.

"We are not applying the readmission agreement at the moment, and we are evaluating the refugee deal," Çavuşoğlu said. He cited delays in visa liberalization as one of the reasons behind Ankara's decision. The EU promised in March 2016 to waive visa requirements for Turks traveling to the EU in exchange for the country taking back migrants from Greece. However, since then the EU has said Ankara has not made sufficient progress on the conditions for liberalization.

The foreign minister's warning is the latest escalation of a diplomat spat between Turkey and the EU after several European countries canceled rallies planned by Turkish cabinet ministers campaigning to drum up support among overseas communities for a constitutional referendum scheduled to take place next month.

Ankara has taken an increasingly hostile tone, with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accusing Germany and the Netherlands of Nazi behavior.

European Council President Donald Tusk responded to Erdoğan on Wednesday, saying the comments were "detached from reality."

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker also criticized Erdoğan during a plenary session in Strasbourg on Wednesday, saying he was "scandalized" by the comments. "I will never accept this comparison between the Nazis and the [modern-day] governments," he said.

Erdoğan has not backed down, and said late Wednesday at a rally in western Turkey that in Europe, “the Jews were treated the same in the past” as non-Europeans are being treated now, AFP reported.

Taking aim at the EU's migration policy, he said Europeans "are even scared of migrants who take shelter. They are scared of everything that is not from there. They are hostile to everything that is not from there.”