TURKISH Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu threatened to scrap the refugee return deal with the EU yesterday as an extradition row erupted with Germany.

He told Swiss daily Neue Zurcher Zeitung: “Our patience is approaching an end” over Brussels’s procrastination over promised visa-free travel for Turkish citizens.

Meanwhile Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attacked comments by German Justice Minister Heiko Maas, who said Berlin could refuse to extradite cases related to the “so-called cleansing that is taking place” following July’s failed military coup.

Mr Erdogan said Germany had “become a shelter” for terrorists.

He invited German leaders to tour the Turkish parliament, which was hit by jets on the night of the coup, saying: “I wonder what they would do if their parliament had been bombed.”