Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan speaks at the anniversary of last year's failed coup. | Adem Altan/AFP via Getty Images Erdoğan: G20 was a ‘disgrace’ Turkish President Erdoğan hits out as German MPs are denied access to a military base.

Turkey is "ahead" of the EU when it comes to protecting human rights, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Friday as he branded Germany's handling of the G20 summit as "a disgrace."

Speaking on the one-year anniversary of a failed coup, Erdoğan said he wouldn't be lectured about rights by the EU, of which Turkey "was ahead."

“We saw the state they are in at the G20 summit in Hamburg," the Turkish president said, according to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. "A disgrace! A disgrace! Everything was burned down and ravaged.”

His comments came amid new diplomatic tension between Germany and Turkey, with the government in Ankara not allowing German MPs to visit troops at a NATO airbase in Konya, according to local media.

A visit to the military base was scheduled for Monday but was blocked by Ankara, Germany's ARD reported.

The Turkish government talked of a "postponement" but did not mention a replacement date in their message to German officials. They said the reason was rising tensions between the two sides, especially the granting of asylum for Turkish generals in Germany.

Earlier this month, the German cabinet backed withdrawing troops from Turkey's Incirlik air base and sending them to Jordan after visits by German lawmakers were repeatedly blocked by Ankara.