⁍ Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called for a boycott of French goods, citing French leader Emmanuel Macron’s ‘anti-Islam’ agenda.
⁍ Erdogan also questioned Macron’s mental health, prompting Paris to recall its ambassador in Ankara.
⁍ The row has its roots in a knife attack outside a French school on Oct. 16 in which a man of Chechen origin beheaded Samuel Paty.
– French President Emmanuel Macron met with representatives of the country’s Muslim community on Monday in an attempt to calm tensions with Turkey after Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called for a boycott of French goods, citing Macron’s “anti-Islam” agenda, Reuters reports. Erdogan also questioned Macron’s mental health, prompting Paris to recall its ambassador in Ankara. “It should shock each one of us that foreign powers are meddling with what is going on in France,” France’s Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin told France Inter radio on Tuesday, adding he was referring to Turkey and Pakistan, where parliament passed a resolution urging the government to recall its ambassador from Paris. “Turkey should not meddle with France’s domestic affairs,” Darmanin added.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-security-darmanin/frances-darmanin-to-turkey-stay-out-of-frances-domestic-affairs-idUSKBN27C10I