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“Samuel Patty was assassinated because Islamists wanted to take possession of our future and know that they will not get what they want with self-confident heroes like him.” A phrase uttered by French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday at the memorial of the French professor who was massacred in France and the Muslim governments, and who brought the Franco-Turkish conflict back to the forefront, by exchanging between the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the French presidency (Elíseo).
In the details, if the French president said that he considered that Samuel Bate was assassinated “because he was the personification of the republic”, stressing at the same time that his country would not abandon the “cartoons”, which was condemned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Jordan, today, “continued”, denouncing “any An attempt to link Islam with terrorism.” Macron, in a national eulogy for Patti, indicated that the latter was killed by “cowards” because she was the embodiment of secular and democratic values in the French Republic.
Macron’s remarks did not appeal to his Turkish counterpart. Today, Recep Tayyip Erdogan denounced the French president’s policies towards Muslims and said he should “examine his mental health.” With this, Erdogan has renewed the heated dispute that arose between Ankara and Paris, over maritime rights in the eastern Mediterranean and conflict files in Libya and Syria, and we are recently sponsoring the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region in Azerbaijan.
“What can be said about a head of state who treats millions of followers of different religions in this way? First of all: check his mental health,” Erdogan said in a televised speech.
“Unacceptable” statements
For its part, the French presidency today denounced Erdogan’s “unacceptable” statements, in which he questioned Macron’s “mental health” in the context of his positions towards Muslims.
And he announced that the French ambassador in Ankara was summoned for consultations.
The Elysee said in a comment to “France Press”, “President Erdogan’s statements are unacceptable. Escalating rhetoric and vulgarity are not a method of dealing.”
He added: “We ask Erdogan to change the course of his policy because he is dangerous from all angles. We will not enter into sterile discussions and we will not accept insults.”
In early October, Macron described Islam as a religion in “crisis” around the world and indicated that the government would introduce a bill in December to toughen a law passed in 1905 that formally separates church and state in France. . He also announced stricter supervision of schools and improved control of foreign funding for mosques.
Also, the French presidency noted today, “the absence of messages of condolence and support from the Turkish president after the assassination of Samuel Bate.”
The Elysee Palace also noted “the very offensive statements (by Recep Tayyip Erdogan) in recent days, especially about the call to boycott French products.”
In an attack by a Russian Muslim refugee of Chechen origin, Patti, a 47-year-old head of the family, was beheaded near his school where he teaches history and geography in a quiet neighborhood in the Conflans-Saint-Ouenuren district, in the western suburbs. from Paris, after showing cartoons of the prophet Muhammad Ali. Your students. Police were looking for the perpetrator, named Abdullah Anzurov, who was 18 years old.
Erdogan added: “What is the so-called Macron’s problem with Islam and Muslims?” He also hoped that the French president will not achieve good results in the 2022 elections, as he said: “You are constantly harassing Erdogan. He will not help you at all.” He continued: “There will be elections (in France). We will see your fate. I don’t think he still has much time ahead of him. Why? Because he did nothing for France.”
“Back up disasters”
The latest differences between the two leaders emerged in the record of the conflict in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which is inhabited by an Armenian majority, and declared their separation from Azerbaijan after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which led to the early war of the nineties that left 30 thousand dead.
Macron asked Turkey this month to provide explanations about the arrival of jihadist fighters in Azerbaijan, according to him, saying that “a red line has been crossed.”
For his part, Erdogan today accused France, which presides with Russia and the United States, the Minsk Group, of “being behind the disasters and the occupation in Azerbaijan.” He went to Paris and said: “You are part of the Minsk Trio. What have you done so far? Have you saved the Azerbaijani lands from occupation? No. Just send weapons to the Armenians.”
He added: “Do you think you will restore peace with the weapons you send to the Armenians? You cannot, because you are not honest.”
