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Turkey, it is confrontation. Ankara summons the Italian ambassador

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Turkey, after having summoned the Italian ambassador to Ankara, wants Mario Draghi’s “apologies”. Vice president Fuat Oktay “condemned” on Twitter the words of the prime minister on Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan and, reports the Turkish newspaper Daily Sabah, invited the prime minister to “apologize”. “I condemn – tweeted Oktay – the shameless and scandalous statements of Prime Minister Draghi about our president who throughout his life has been in the interests of his country and his nation, has opposed all forms of fascism and patronage and has won every election with great confidence on the part of the people ”.

The president of the EPP group Manfred Weber also spoke in defense of Draghi: “He is right, under the leadership of President Erdogan Turkey has moved away from the rule of law, democracy and fundamental freedoms in the last decade. It is not a free country for all its citizens. If Europe wants to build a constructive partnership with countries like Turkey, and it is in our strategic interest to do so, we should speak clearly and honestly about the facts on the ground ”.

And in Italy, Draghi’s words brought together the majority and the opposition with the leader of the Brothers of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, who asked to “stem the expansion of the Islamist regime”. MEP Sandro Gozi echoed her at Radio Cusano Campus: “That Turkey today is governed by an autocrat, even if it has passed the elections several times, is nothing new. The new thing is that Italy, which has always been the most prudent country, says so ”. Lia Quartapelle, leader of the Pd group in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber also expressed herself on the same line: “President Draghi said how things stand. Erdogan represses the press and academic freedom, arrests parliamentarians and dismisses mayors. The result is that Turkey is in an economic crisis, at war with its neighbors and the Turks are suffering repression and a lack of freedom ”.

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The head of communication of the Turkish presidency, on the other hand, defined Draghi as an “nominated”, as opposed to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, elected with 52% of the votes: The appointed premier of Italy has exceeded the limits and defined our dictator president, elected with 52% of the votes by the Turkish people. Words that have no place in democracy, spoken with a style to be condemned. If someone is looking for a dictator then look at the history of Italy ”.

“After the coarse words of the representatives of the Ankara regime, it would be desirable that the Italian government summon the Turkish ambassador to the Farnesina to ask for their reaction. And perhaps also to say clearly that we consider the offenses against women unacceptable. illegal arrests of opponents of the dictator Erdogan, bombing of Kurdish villages with many civilian victims “. The national secretary of the Italian Left, Nicola Fratoianni, asks for it.

Meanwhile, the MEPs of the commission for the defense of women’s rights and gender equality, commenting on the sofagate affair, condemned Erdogan’s “misogyny” and the “inertia” of the president of the European Council Charles Michel. Evelyn Regner (S&D), chairman of the commission, in addition to reiterating her support for women in leadership positions, spoke of “disrespect” that “goes beyond the person and the institution” and that “shows once again how much it goes made to support women in leadership positions “.

No less harsh are the other members of the same EP commission, starting with the vice-president Eugenia Rodríguez Palop (Gue / Ngl) convinced that “the contempt shown towards President von der Leyen, who has remained without a chair, is an example of the campaign against the rights of women in Turkey “. This was echoed by the third vice president Elissavet Vozemberg (Ppe) who spoke of “unacceptable and derogatory behavior of Erdogan towards the president of the Commission” and Robert Biedron (S & d), fourth vice president, who criticized the “total lack of respect of Erdogan not only towards gender equality, but also towards diplomatic protocol ”. MEP Frances Fitzgerald (EPP) spoke of “daily sexism at the highest levels of politics and diplomacy”, while Maria Noichl (S&D) underlined the “clear responsibility also on the part of Charles Michel”.

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