German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier attends a news conference in Tbilisi | Vano Shlamov/AFP via Getty Images German foreign minister: Donald Trump is a ‘hate preacher’ There is currently ‘no basis for understanding’ between Germany and Turkey, Steinmeier also said.

Right-wing populists such as Donald Trump, anti-immigration parties and Brexit campaigners "make politics with fear," German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Thursday, according to media reports.

Germany's anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, supporters of Britain leaving the EU, and "the hate preachers, like Donald Trump at the moment in the USA," are fear-mongers, Steinmeier said, according to broadcaster Deutsche Welle.

Trump has been on the receiving end of hostility from a number of European leaders.

French President François Hollande said earlier this week that Trump's "excesses make you want to retch," after the U.S. Republican presidential candidate targeted the Muslim parents of a decorated American soldier killed in Iraq.

Steinmeier also spoke about the situation in Turkey. Germany's tense relationship with Ankara is now at such a low-point that "there is essentially no basis for understanding ... no basis for discussions," he said, according to Reuters.

However, he warned against ending talks with Turkey about it joining the EU, as Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern suggested Wednesday. Steinmeier said that would remove the bloc's leverage as it tries to moderate President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's crackdown in the wake of a failed coup on July 15.