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reThe Elysee Palace reacted with outrage to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s harsh criticism of France’s head of state, Emmanuel Macron. “President Erdogan’s statements are unacceptable,” a representative of the French presidency said on Saturday at the request of AFP. “Excess and rudeness are not a method.” Erdogan had to change his political course “because he is dangerous in every way.” Furthermore, the French ambassador in Ankara was withdrawn.
Erdogan had previously attacked Macron for his statements on Islam. Macron should have his “mental state under control,” Erdogan said in a televised speech on Saturday. After the Islamist attack on French teacher Samuel Paty, Macron had announced an intensification of the crackdown on Islamists.
Macron wants to take stronger action against Islamists
“What can you say about a head of state who treats millions of members of different religions in this way?” Said the Turkish president. “What problem does this individual named Macron have with Islam and Muslims?” Erdogan added to Macron that he first had to “control his state of mind.”
Professor Paty, 47, was beheaded by an 18-year-old on Friday a week ago near her school near Paris. The attacker of Chechen origin was shot dead by the police shortly after. Paty had addressed the issue of free speech in class using controversial cartoons of Muhammad.
After the attack, the French police carried out dozens of operations against people and associations allegedly belonging to or close to the Islamist spectrum.
