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Erdogan: I Hope France Gets Rid Of 'Macron Scourge' Soon

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, speaking after Friday prayers, says that he 'hopes France gets rid of the scourge/burden [depending on translation] of Macron soon'.

  • Relations between Turkey and France have hit their lowest point in decades, with Erdogan and French President Emmanuel Macron engaging in frequent verbal spats. The two have clashed over multiple issues, including the role of Muslims in French society, migration in the Mediterranean, maritime borders in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Libyan civil war, and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
  • Says that 'if the French parliament loves them so much, why don't they give Marseille to the Armenians?', mirroring comments from Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, a close ally of Erdogan.
  • In the context of Turkey and France being NATO allies, these comments are fairly extraordinary in calling for the removal of a sitting head of state of another country.

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