Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan violently attacked his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Friday in a "brain-dead state", adding to the tension a week before a crucial NATO summit.
"First examine your own brain death"
Echoing the statements of Emmanuel Macron, who judged NATO "brain-dead," Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: "First, examine your own brain death." These statements only apply to those in your gender. who are in a state of brain death ". These remarks come after French critics of the offensive of Turkey, itself a member of NATO, in Syria.
A crucial summit next week
Recep Tayyip Erdogan's remarks reinforce tensions between Turkey and NATO, of which Ankara is a member, ahead of a crucial summit of the Alliance in London next week. Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Emmanuel Macron, as well as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson also need to meet on the sidelines of the summit to discuss Syria. Last month, Ankara launched an incursion into the north-east of the country targeting the Kurdish militia of the People's Protection Units (YPG), described by Turkey as a "terrorist".
But Western countries have criticized the operation and Emmanuel Macron said in an interview with the weekly The Economist in early November that the offensive behind the scenes of the world karaoke championships, November 28, 2019 in Tokyo was part of the symptoms indicating that the 'Otan was in a state of brain death.