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Bilateral relations between NATO nations have deteriorated as a result of disputes over gas wells, maritime rights in the eastern Mediterranean, the war in Libya and recent clashes in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
RT Erdogan began criticizing the French president on Saturday, saying Macron “needed mental help.”
French Foreign Minister Jean Yves Le Drian called such behavior by Turkey unacceptable and intended to increase hatred against France. He said the French ambassador would return to Paris for consultations on Sunday.
Sources from the Elysee Palace confirmed to the dpa news agency that this is the first time that this senior French official has been called for a consultation.
“We do not participate in meaningless disputes or accept insults,” Casa del Elíseo said in a statement issued Saturday night, the AFP news agency reported.
Tensions have also been intensified by debates over the role of Islam in French society, which have escalated after the beheading of history professor Samuel Paty in the Paris suburbs this month.
In a lesson on freedom of speech, Paty showed her students cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that originally appeared in the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
RT Erdogan criticized Macron for devising a plan to deal with Islamists and creating a form of Islam that would coincide with the “values of the Republic.”
What are Macron’s problems with Islam and Muslims on behalf of this man? Macron needs psychological help, RT Erdogan said during a rally at Kaiser. “Every day we are faced with new and worrying signs of Islamophobia in Europe.”
Such verbal attacks by Erdogan against Macron are not uncommon.
In November last year, following Macron’s statements that NATO was experiencing “brain death”, RT Erdogan said: “First of all, you must test your own brain. Because such statements only apply to people of his type whose brains are also dead. “
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