President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday criticized Germany for siding with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who came to power in the July 2013 military coup, after the country ruled for the arrest of a senior Al Jazeera Arabic TV journalist upon the request of Egypt.Erdoğan said an EU state, which failed to act when Ankara provided documents on thousands of outlawed PKK members who were freely operating in its borders, saw no harm in detaining a senior journalist from Al Jazeera."European states, which leave Turkey alone in fighting terrorism and condone terrorist organization members, unfortunately behave very differently over a request by coup stagers," Erdoğan said.Al-Jazeera journalist Ahmed Mansour, 52, a well-known journalist with the Qatar-based broadcaster's Arabic service, was detained at Berlin's Tegel airport on Saturday on an Egyptian arrest warrant, his lawyers said. Mansour, who holds dual Egyptian-British nationality, was trying to board a Qatar Airways flight to Doha, the station reported.Martin Steltner, a spokesman for the Berlin prosecutor's office, said Sunday that Mansour would be taken to a prison in the city and that further decisions on his future will be made next week.Al-Jazeera linked the arrest with Egyptian president's visit to Germany and said: "Sisi has largely suppressed dissent in Egypt. Thousands of activists and political opponents have been arrested, prosecuted and in some cases sentenced to death since former President Mohammed Morsi was deposed two years ago."Mansour's lawyer Saad Djebbar was quoted as saying: "The arrest was politically motivated. This is a ploy to terrorize Al-Jazeera journalists and paralyzes Al-Jazeera from doing its work."There is no extradition agreement between Germany and Egypt, and Egypt's previous request for Interpol to arrest Mansour was rejected. "The airport authorities detained me based on an Interpol order at the request of the Egyptian authorities. I informed [the police] that the global police organization has rejected Egypt's request and that I have this document from Interpol to prove that I am not wanted on any charge. I also told them that all the cases that were filed against me in Egypt were fabricated. They, however, insisted on holding me in their detention center for investigation. They told me that they will transfer me to face an investigating judge who will determine my case," Mansour told Al-Jazeera.