Erdoğan has left Germany in a hurry right after the G-20 Summit in Hamburg. The Turkish President was not allowed to attend any other event outside of the summit, an official ceremony wasn’t held for his departure and he didn’t participate in the G-20 family photograph.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was greeted by “Welcome Dictator” signs in Hamburg where he attended the G-20 Leaders Summit on Friday and Saturday and he returned to Turkey immediately after the summit.

When the events they wanted to hold for Erdoğan’s visit in various cities throughout Germany were not given permits, the Turkish President wanted to visit the Turkish Consulate in Hamburg but German authorities did not allow that either. Erdoğan ended up going back and forth between his hotel and the expo center the summit was held in.

ERDOĞAN ADMITS TO BANS

Erdoğan held one last press conference the previous night before he returned to Turkey and spoke in anger about the German government. He said the German government didn’t allow him to hold indoor meetings and talked about the bans imposed on him:

“They couldn’t tolerate me holding indoor meetings. Those who don’t allow the President of the Republic of Turkey to speak in Germany can’t talk about freedom, no offense. This will return to hit them like a boomerang. They didn’t allow me to talk to my countrymen here via videoconferencing, let alone indoor meetings.”

DIDN’T PARTICIPATE IN THE FAMILY PHOTO

A family photograph was taken with the G-20 leaders and their spouses following the summit hosted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, but Erdoğan and his wife did not participate in it.

Erdoğan also chose not to attend the the classical music concert and the leaders dinner in the G-20 Summit. When the Erdoğans didn’t attend the Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 Concert, two seats in the front row were left emtpy. Erdoğan and the Turkish delegation spent that time in the hotel with strict security precautions.

MERKEL: TENSION WITH ERDOĞAN CONTINUES

In the press conference she held at the closing of the G-20 Leaders Summit, German Chancellor Angela Merkel also spoke of the ongoing tensions between Germany and the Erdoğan regime. Merkel said they held a one on one meeting by Erdoğan’s demand and said: “This meeting has made it clear that there are deep divides between us, and these are not differences that can be swept under the rug.”

Merkel gave the arrests in Turkey in the last year and the German MPs not being allowed to visit the İncirlik Base as examples and implied that the tensions may continue into the near future.

ERDOĞAN GONE, LEFT A LAW IN HIS WAKE

The Turkish President visited Germany for the first time since the April 16 referendum and left a new law in his wake - the “Erdoğan Act”. By early July, The Federal Government passed a law restricting rallies foreign leaders can hold in Germany. The law was dubbed the “Erdoğan Act” among the German populace and was passed just before the G-20 Summit.

Then the AKP supporters started to organize events for Erdoğan to attend in Turkish consulates in Germany. The events were planned for the anniversary of the July 15 coup attempt and as political shows for Erdoğan on Germany’s soil.

But Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Martin Schäfer said Erdoğan could only speak in Turkish consulates with permission from the Federal Government. Schäfer said the Turkish government has to appeal to the German Foreign Ministry beforehand and warned that their “government may decide to allow it after the appeal is assessed.”

Erdoğan had given his most recent speech as the President in May 2015 in Karlsruhe. In a July 2016 AKP rally in Cologne, Erdoğan was not allowed to connect via videoconferencing. When Germany didn’t give permission to AKP rallies in Germany before the April 16 referendum, Erdoğan had likened the German government to the Nazi regime and issued many more insults.