Erdogan attacks Macron and his "own brain death", the Quai d'Orsay summons the Turkish ambassador

Tensions are intensifying between Paris and Ankara. The Turkish ambassador to France will be summoned to the Foreign Ministry to explain the statements of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who ruled that Emmanuel Macron was in a "brain dead state", said Friday, November 29, Elysium.

"Let's be clear, this is not a statement, it is insulting," the French presidency reacted to what it described as the "latest excesses" of the Turkish head of state. "The ambassador will be summoned to the ministry to explain," says one at the Elysee.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan violently took it on Friday during a speech in Istanbul to his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron taking up his propso about NATO, thus accentuating the tensions just days from a crucial summit. Nato.

Regain of tensions between France and Turkey

Echoing the statements of the French president who had judged the Atlantic Alliance "brain dead" in an interview with the weekly The Economist, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: "I am speaking from Turkey to French President Emmanuel Macron, and I'll send him back to Nato, first examine your own brain death. "

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These vehement remarks come after criticisms issued Thursday by the French president against the offensive launched in October by Turkey in Syria against a Kurdish militia supported by Western countries. The Elysee estimated that there was "no comment to make on insults".

With his interview with The Economist, "the President of the Republic has put the terms of a debate that requires responses from each of the allies, but perhaps more particularly from Turkey," added the presidency, indicating that the leader the state expected Ankara "clear answers".

"These are Turkish answers we need"

"There is this question of the Turkish operation in Syria and its consequences, the possible resurgence of Daesh [...], but there are still others on which it is Turkish answers on the substance that it must, "said the Presidency.

The Turkish president'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.

With AFP