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On Monday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on the Turks to boycott French products, accusing his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron of launching a “hate campaign” against Muslims, in a new escalation between Ankara and Paris.
In a speech in Ankara, Erdogan said: “As some in France say (don’t buy Turkish brands), I am addressing my nation here: don’t pay attention to French brands, don’t buy them.”
At this time, he did not announce any call to boycott Turkish products in France, as Paris did not publicly say anything in this direction, according to Agence France-Presse.
Calls to boycott French products have intensified on social media in Muslim countries in recent days, after Macron confirmed that France will continue to defend the cartoons of the prophet Muhammad during the ceremony honoring the professor who was beheaded after presenting these drawings to your students in class.
And the Turkish president added, in remarks that may further inflame the tensions between Turkey and France, that “European officials must stop the Macron-led hate campaign.”
In remarks after the assassination of teacher Samuel Patty, French President Emmanuel Macron promised that France would “not abandon cartoons” and said that Patty “was assassinated because Islamists wanted to take over our future.”
On Sunday, criticism increased over statements made by the French president about Islam, while Erdogan said that Macron “should undergo mental controls.”
On Monday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized Erdogan’s “defamatory” remarks against Macron.
Merkel’s spokesman, Stephen Seibert, said that the German chancellor strongly condemned the Turkish president’s remarks about Macron.
He added: “These statements are defamatory and totally unacceptable”, especially in the context of the “horrible murder of French professor Samuel Bate by an Islamic fanatic”.
