European Parliament President David Sassuli last night (Saturday) attacked Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over his order to declare the ten ambassadors calling for the release of political prisoner Osman Kabala an "undesirable personality" (persona non grata). The expulsion of the ten ambassadors is a sign of the Turkish government's erosion of authority, "Sasuli tweeted on his Twitter page, adding:" We will not be alarmed.
We are behind the call for the release of Kabala. "
At the same time, German Vice-President of the German Bundestag, Claudia Roth, has called for sanctions against Ankara over the "authoritarianism" of the Turkish president.
"Erdogan's unscrupulous actions against his critics are becoming increasingly uninhibited," she said in an interview with the German news agency DPA.
According to her, the call for the expulsion of the ambassadors of Germany, the United States, Canada, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Finland and New Zealand "requires a confrontation at the international level.
The export of weapons to Turkey must be stopped. "
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Meanwhile, in Turkey itself, Erdogan's political situation appears to be deteriorating.
After the Reuters news agency first reported on an "anti-Erdogan" alliance gaining momentum in Ankara ahead of the June 2023 election, and a poll by the Metropolitan Institute revealed that most Turks think the Turkish president will lose the election, the New York Times reported yesterday that the six parties Are on the verge of closing the agreement between them.
According to the report, the six parties, with a different platform between them, agreed to turn the upcoming elections into a kind of "referendum" designed to abolish the presidential regime to which Erdogan led.