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Jakarta, CNN Indonesia –
President French Emmanuel Macron urged Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan show respect and don’t lie.
Macron also believes that Turkey is displaying a belligerent attitude towards its allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). France and Turkey are members of NATO.
“Turkey has a hostile attitude towards NATO allies,” he said in an interview with Al-Jazeera which aired on Saturday (10/31) quoted from AFP.
He said that France wanted things “quiet”. That is why he asked Erdogan to respect France, respect the European Union and respect its values, in addition to not lying and not insulting.
He noted that France had expressed its condolences to Turkey after the deadly earthquake in the Aegean Sea. France also offered to send aid to the disaster site.
On that occasion, Macron also referred to the Turkish intervention in Syria, Libya and the Mediterranean.
He called Turkey’s intervention in Syria a surprise. Macron viewed Turkey’s interference in the country as an aggression for NATO allies.
He said that Ankara does not respect the arms embargo on Libya and has shown a very aggressive stance in the eastern Mediterranean.
“I realized that Turkey has imperial tendencies in the region and I think these imperial tendencies are not a good thing for regional stability, that’s all.”
Tensions between France and Turkey came to a head over the weekend when Erdogan questioned Macron’s mental health, sparked by statements defending the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad and insulting Islam.
France responded by summoning its ambassador to Ankara.
But on Saturday, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said France would send the ambassador back to Ankara after a week’s absence.
Le Drian told the announcer RTL that Turkey deliberately used the beheading of teachers in Paris to launch a heinous and defamatory campaign against France.
The teacher, named Samuel Paty, was beheaded on October 16 for showing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to his students during a class discussion on freedom of expression.
But Le Drian said Turkey’s condemnation of the stabbing attack on a church in Nice a few days ago led France to decide to send an ambassador back to Ankara.
According to him, this time Turkey’s message was different, but without clarification.
“We ask our ambassador to return to Ankara tomorrow to follow up on this request for clarification and explanation with the Turkish authorities,” he said.
(DEA)
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