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Mediterranean: Turkey denounces Macron's "arrogant" statements

2020-09-10T13:25:47.372Z


Turkey denounced Thursday the " arrogant " statements by Emmanuel Macron criticizing Ankara's actions in the eastern Mediterranean and accused the French president of " endangering " the interests of Europe. Read also: “Periscope” N ° 18: Turkey against Europe " French President Macron has once again made arrogant statements, in an old colonialist reflex, " said the Turkish Foreign Ministry, add


Turkey denounced Thursday the "

arrogant

"

statements

by Emmanuel Macron criticizing Ankara's actions in the eastern Mediterranean and accused the French president of "

endangering

" the interests of Europe.

Read also: “Periscope” N ° 18: Turkey against Europe

"

French President Macron has once again made arrogant statements, in an old colonialist reflex,

" said the Turkish Foreign Ministry, adding that the French head of state "

promotes tensions and endangers the interests of the 'Europe and the European Union

'.

Macron on Thursday urged Europe to speak with one voice and to be "

firm

" against Turkey in the eastern Mediterranean, hours before a summit with his southern EU counterparts on the tensions in the zone.

Europe must have a more united and clearer voice

” vis-à-vis Turkey, declared the head of state in Porticcio in Corsica, a French island in the Mediterranean.

"

We Europeans must be clear and firm with the government of President (Recep Tayyip) Erdogan, which today has unacceptable behavior

", and must "

clarify its intentions

", he insisted, while he there is no united European position on the subject.

In an apparent allusion to the actions of the Turkish government and their consequences, he also affirmed that "

the Turkish people who are a great people deserve something else

".

Read also: Macron calls on the EU to form a united front against Turkey

"

Macron attacks Turkey and our president every day because we thwart his insidious projects and his dirty foreign policy games,

" added the Turkish ministry.

Instead of posing blindly as the advocate of Greece and the Greek Cypriots (..), France should adopt a position favoring reconciliation and dialogue,

” he continued.

Mr. Macron's remarks that the Turkish people “

deserve something else

” appear to have been seen by Ankara as an attempt to pit the Turkish people against President Erdogan.

Our President of the Republic is one of the elected leaders with the highest percentage of votes in Europe.

Our president has always drawn his strength from the Turkish people.

The Turkish people and their government have always been united in the face of this kind of delirium and will continue to be so,

”said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Source: lefigaro

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