(Anadolu) The French president’s recent claims about Islam amount to a dangerous provocation, Turkey’s president said on Tuesday.
“[Emmanuel] Macron’s statement on ‘Islam is in crisis’ in a city where Muslims are the majority go beyond disrespect and are a clear provocation,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a gathering of mosque and religious workers in the Turkish capital Ankara.
A French president making statements urging the restructuring of Islam is “rude,” Erdogan added.
Last Friday, Macron announced a controversial plan against so-called “Islamist separatism” in the country.
In a speech in the western Paris suburb of Les Mureaux — an area with a large Muslim population — Macron claimed that Islam is “experiencing a crisis across the world.”
