By threatening to return ten ambassadors, including those of France, Germany and the United States, the Turkish President reinforces his diplomatic isolation and puts Turkey at the mercy of a magnitude monetary crisis.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan still loves brilliance. On the move, Saturday, October 23, in Eskisehir, in the north-west of the country, he gave voice, reiterating the threat, professed a few days earlier, to return “as soon as possible” Ten ambassadors in office in Ankara, of which those of France, Germany and the United States. Seven of the target countries are NATO allies, six are members of the European Union, three are the main partners of Ankara.
The expulsion of diplomats, including the Ambassador of France, Hervé Magro, should be announced in the day of Monday, after the Council of Ministers meeting that Mr. Erdogan will preside, since he now exercises the functions of President and Prime Minister. Will he go back or choose to go to the front of an unprecedented crisis, of which he does not risk going out Grandi?
Saturday, it seemed determined. “I gave the order necessary for our foreign affairs minister, these ten ambassadors must be declared personae non-grades as soon as possible,” he launched a wall of admirers. “They will get to know Turkey,” he added under the acclaim of the crowd.
This new algarade occurs after the ten ambassadors referred to in Ankara, launched a common appeal to the liberation of Osman Kavala, the Turkish patron imprisoned for four years without ever being convicted. In a statement released on Monday, October 18, Canada, France, Finland, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and the United States claimed a “right regulation and fast of the case “. This appeal followed a decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which ordered the release of the patron, what Ankara refuses to do.
A Best of his last Intentions
The reaction of President Erdogan has been scathing. On the plane that brought him back from a tour in Africa, he threatened to return the signatory diplomats of the appeal. At first glance, his declaration seemed saurated, assimilated to a gesticulation. Above all, it was going back to the intentions he had recently displayed a recalibration of his foreign policy towards an accaltimia.
Mevlut Cavusoglu, the head of Turkish diplomacy, no longer knew what foot dancing. Charged to apply the presidential decision, he attempted for a moment to convince his boss that the moment was perhaps badly chosen. Return the US Ambassador to a few days from the G20 summit, scheduled to stay Saturday, 30 and Sunday, October 31 in Rome, might not be a good idea.
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