In the press - Turkey: President Erdogan ready for a diplomatic crisis with his allies?

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In Turkey, it all started with a statement released last week by several countries, including France, which called for the release of Osman Kavala. This opponent of the regime has been imprisoned, without trial, for 4 years, recalls

. In 2019, the European Court of Human Rights had nevertheless called for his "immediate release". The reaction of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was not long in coming, since he threatened with expulsion the ambassadors of the 10 signatory countries of the press release, including France, Germany or even Canada and the United States. The

 explains, in an editorial, that the words of President Erdogan are "hard but vague": for the newspaper, it is about showing the muscles while its image in the country is strongly tarnished.

Can we do without nuclear in the fight against global warming? For

, all lights are green for the atom. "The French nuclear industry can count on the energy deployed by Emmanuel Macron to extol the merits of the atom", in particular the fact that it is carbon-free. But not all scientists agree on the argument of nuclear power that emits no Co2 at all. The issue of nuclear waste cannot be neglected or postponed indefinitely, says an American scientist in

. “Even if it is low in CO2 emissions”, he says, “nuclear will never be a renewable energy”.

Haro on the polls! This is the bias of the newspaper

which has decided not to order any more polls or to broadcast them until the presidential election. "Why consult the citizens? Why build a political program? Why debate [...] when the polls do it for you?" The editor-in-chief of the newspaper takes the pen and shoots red balls on the multiplication of opinion polls which give this or that candidate in the second round. "Twenty years ago," writes the journalist, "we announced the largely favorite left in the second round of the 2002 presidential election." In the end, the duel will have opposed Jacques Chirac (UMP) to Jean-Marie Le Pen (FN).

Cock-a-doodle Doo !

In Moto GP, Fabio Quartararo won the title of world champion, a first for a Frenchman in the top category of the discipline.

The 22-year-old from Nice has confirmed all the hopes placed since his debut at the age of 15.

The next season will see him opposed to the multiple Spanish world champion, Marc Marquez, injured in the arm for two years and determined to do battle with his new rival.

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