Germany allowed PKK terrorist Karayılan to speak via video call but not President Erdoğan

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was not allowed by a German court to speak at a planned anti-coup rally in Cologne via video call on Sunday, but previously Germany allowed the internationally recognized PKK terrorist organization's armed wing leader Murat Karayılan to speak in 2011 at the 19th Kurdish Cultural Festival in Köln.

Germany's rational on banning the video conference of a democratically elected president while at the same time allowing a terrorist leader to address its followers is hard to grasp and has been drawing heavy criticism on social media.

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The terrorist leader Karayılan was allowed to connect via video conference to address a mass of supporters during the 2011 festival.

Murat Karayılan, born in 1954, is the acting leader of the PKK, which is a prescribed terrorist organization by the U.S., UK, Australia, Germany, the EU and NATO.

Karayılan has been the PKK's acting leader ever since the organization's founder and leader, Abdullah Öcalan, was captured in 1999.

Karayılan has called on Kurds to stop serving in the military of Turkey, stop paying taxes and stop using the Turkish language.

The rally in which President Erdoğan was planned to connect via video conference and give a speech in support of Turkey's democracy following a failed military coup on July 15-16.

German authorities had intervened to prevent President Erdoğan from addressing the rally via video call stating that it had concerns over public order.