The Turkish president has described the visit of the French president in Beirut to “show”. This attack fits into a context of tensions between the two countries.
The time is not the appeasement between France and Turkey. The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused on Thursday with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron’s referred to as “colonial” in Lebanon and said that his recent visit to Beirut to “show”, in a context of increasing tensions between Ankara and Paris.
“What Macron and company want is to restore the colonial order (in Lebanon)”, was launched, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, during a speech in Ankara. “To us, this is not to run after the pictures or do the show in front of the cameras in which we are interested”, he added.
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The head of the Turkish State referred to the movement highly publicized Emmanuel Macron in Beirut last week, after an explosion that, on 4 August, gave 171 dead and more than 6,500 wounded, and ravaged the lebanese capital.
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If the Turkish president has not personally traveled to Beirut, he has dispatched his vice president and his chief of diplomacy last week. Lebanon was under French mandate from 1920 until its independence in 1943. Prior to this, he has been under ottoman domination for four centuries.
The virus attacks of Recep Tayyip Erdogan is taking place in a context of growing tensions between Turkey and France, particularly in relation to divergent interests in Libya and the eastern Mediterranean. Research Turkish of hydrocarbons in the sea area have aroused the wrath of Greece and the european Union.
Conflict in the eastern Mediterranean
Supporting Athens, Paris, has denounced the actions “unilateral” Ankara and announced Thursday, have temporarily reinforced its military presence in the eastern Mediterranean with the deployment of two aircraft and two ships of war. The press pro-government Turkish has welcomed this news with outrage, accusing France of “exceed the limits” and “looking for war”.
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan has not directly commented on the French decision on Thursday, but he took it without naming it a “country that has no coast in the eastern Mediterranean”, the summing of the “don’t believe more than it is”.
