(AFP) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday slammed his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, over his policies toward Muslims, saying that he needed “mental checks.”
Macron and Erdogan are feuding about maritime rights in the eastern Mediterranean, Libya, Syria and — most recently — the escalating conflict in Azerbaijan’s Armenian separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
“What can one say about a head of state who treats millions of members from different faith groups this way: first of all, have mental checks,” Erdogan said in a televised address in the central Anatolian city of Kayseri.
Macron’s proposal to defend his country’s secular values against radical Islam has angered the Turkish government.
