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The next European council will consider the Turkey issue and could put “much more pressure” on it due to its “unacceptable” behavior in the Nagorno-Karabakhsaid today the Minister of Foreign Trade of France Frank Rister.
In an interview he gave to France Inter, Rister denounces Ankara’s stance on calls to boycott French products in some Muslim countries, amid controversy over the sketches of the prophet Muhammad.
“Turkey is playing a reprehensible role by instrumentalizing the speech of the President of the Republic or the positions of France, in order to harm France and damage the values that France defends,” said the French minister.
“We want Turkey to change, we want this behavior to change, this expansionist behavior in the eastern Mediterranean with these investigations that affect the Cypriot and Greek sovereignty ”.
Rister also called on Turkey “to stop this behavior, especially in North Africa with arms movementsAnd to “stop exploiting the issue of immigration in relation to Europe.”
“Turkey is a great people, a great country with whom we want to have diplomatic and economic relations, but we must have a real dialogue, because we cannot continue like this,” he said.
“It is a reason for Europe and not just for France, and that is why, once again at the next European Council, this Turkish question will be raised to see how we can push a little more, or a lot more, Turkey, because Their behavior, especially in the Nagorno-Karabakh crisis, is unacceptable“He added.
