France summons its ambassador to Turkey to protest Erdogan's statements

The French presidency said, "President Erdogan's statements are unacceptable. Escalating rhetoric and vulgarity are not an approach to dealing. We ask Erdogan to change the course of his policy because it is dangerous in all respects. We will not enter into sterile arguments and do not accept insults."

The French presidency also indicated "the absence of messages of condolence and support from the Turkish president following the assassination of Samuel Patti," the teacher who was beheaded a week ago in an attack carried out by an Islamist near his school in the Parisian suburb.

The Elysee Palace also pointed to "(Erdogan's) very offensive statements in recent days, especially about the call for a boycott of French products."

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attacked his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, saying that he needed to test his mental abilities, as reported by the Anatolia News Agency, commenting on the latter's statements about Islam and the crisis of the Prophet Muhammad's cartoons.

Erdogan added, in a press conference, a conference of the ruling Justice and Development Party, Saturday: "Macron does not understand the freedom of will and belief, they do not know the beliefs of other peoples, I do not know how to describe the president of this state, who does not control his mind, and is unable to use this mind." According to the official Turkish translation of the Turkish "TRT Arabic" channel.

Erdogan explained: "Every now and then, he (Macron) comes in my name and does not have any other topics. He could not do anything for France, he could not do anything, he could not control his mind and he was unable to use this mind."

The Turkish president described European policies as "incomprehensible" and "hostile" to Muslims and the Islamic religion, saying that they are "increasing day by day, we can call it anti-Islam, and other closures of Muslim mosques and mosques. We have not closed Christian temples and other religions, because these ideas Not found in our faith. "

And Erdogan added, "You are the ones who depend on the naked anti-Islam campaigns, the actions that France did against the Prophet Muhammad, which I can only explain as unjust."

France has received many criticisms from Islamic religious institutions, amid calls for a boycott of French goods, against the background of statements by French officials that were deemed "offensive" to Islam.