President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Europeans would not be able to walk safely on the streets if they kept up their current attitude towards Turkey, his latest salvo in a row over campaigning by Turkish politicians in Europe

Turkey is not a country you can pull and push around, not a country whose citizens you can drag on the ground, Erdogan said at an event for Turkish journalists in Ankara, in comments broadcast live on national television.

If Europe continues this way, no European in any part of the world can walk safely on the streets. Europe will be damaged by this. We, as Turkey, call on Europe to respect human rights and democracy, he said.

Respect human rights or else we will blow you up!  Erdogan