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After a verbal attack by Turkish President Erdogan on Macron, France has called its ambassador in Ankara.
“President Erdogan’s words are unacceptable,” the French news agency AFP quoted on Saturday night, citing the Elysee Palace’s reasons for the departure of the Ankara ambassador. “We do not engage in useless arguments and we do not accept insults,” he said. The Turkish president is asked to change the course of his dangerous policy.
Discussion on freedom of belief
Erdogan did so Saturday morning at a congress of his AKP party in Kayseri in Central Anatolia against “worrying signs of growing Islamophobia in Europe.” As an example, he named Macron, who declared war on radical Islamism in France after the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty a good week ago (see video below). Paty was murdered by an 18-year-old with Russo-Chechen roots after showing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in class.
Macron promotes an Islam that is “compatible with the values of the republic.” The strict separation of Church and State is a fundamental principle of the French constitution.
“What is Macron’s problem?”
“What kind of problem does this person named Macron have with Islam and Muslims?” Erdogan asked at Saturday’s event. Macron is in psychological treatment and should “monitor his mental state,” added the Turkish president. His French counterpart does not understand freedom of belief.
At the same event, Erdogan had also criticized the police raid on a Berlin mosque. On Wednesday, around 150 police officers searched several businesses and a mosque in the German capital on suspicion of fraud in the crown grant. Erdogan had previously described the process on Twitter as racist and Islamophobic.
