In the diplomatic crisis between Turkey and several states, including Germany, the fronts remain hardened. The Turkish interior minister defended the crackdown on ten ambassadors with martial words.
The Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has defended his country’s actions against the German and nine other ambassadors. “Let them come with cannons or with rifles. Let them not only gather ten ambassadors, but ambassadors from all over the world. You can not break a hair of this people,” said Soylu, according to the state news agency Anadolu on Saturday evening in Istanbul.
Opposition party CHP criticizes Erdogan’s actions
The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had previously announced that the ambassadors of ten countries would be declared undesirable. He had instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to do so. Such a step usually means the expulsion of the diplomats; however, they will then be set a deadline for leaving the country.
The largest opposition party, the CHP, criticized the action against the Western diplomats. The CHP politician and ex-ambassador Ünal Ceviköz warned of Turkey’s isolation at international level and called on Foreign Minister Mevlüt Cavusoglu to correct the “mistake”. Otherwise, he would have to resign, he wrote on Twitter.
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