Complete freak of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (67)!
We are used to a lot from President Erdogan. Again and again he stands out for his authoritarian and domineering behavior. It is also known that Erdogan is not that particular about human rights. Against the opposition and critics, the rulers act ironically – women’s rights and the rule of law are not very important to him.
On Thursday Erdogan caused international excitement with a breakout. Target of the attack: ambassadors from various countries, including Germany.
► Erdogan had indirectly threatened the diplomats with expulsion! “We can’t have the luxury of them (the ambassadors, editor’s note) welcome to our country, ”he said, according to the state news agency Anadolu.
Trigger: The ambassadors of Germany and nine other states had demanded the release of the human rights activist and cultural promoter Osman Kavala (64), who has been in Turkish jail for four years without conviction.
In response to the countries calling for the release of Kavala, the Turkish Foreign Ministry summoned the ambassadors of the respective countries. Ankara described their approach as “unacceptable”. Among the appointed diplomats were those from the USA, France and the Netherlands.
► In a conversation with Turkish reporters on the return flight from a trip to Africa, Erdogan raged: “Are you entitled to teach Turkey such a lesson? Who are you already? ”The private broadcaster NTV broadcast the scene.
Erdogan also tried to simply turn the tables: Germany or the USA did not simply let “crooks, murderers and terrorists” go free, was the ruler’s crazy justification.
Explosive: a few moments after Erdogan’s remarks, the Turkish lira fell to a record low against the dollar. The stock exchange apparently fears a new phase of tension with the West.
BILD Vice-President: We shouldn’t be intimidated
BILD Vice President Paul Ronzheimer is watching this development with great concern. “Erdogan is completely freaking out!” Said Ronzheimer in the BILD-LIVE talk format “Viertel nach Acht”. The BILD vice-president says: “It shows that with this president anything is possible in Turkey. I hope we won’t be intimidated. “
Prehistory: The embassies of Germany and nine other countries in Ankara published an appeal on Monday in which they, with reference to judgments by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), demanded the release and a “fair and rapid settlement” of Kavala, who was arrested in 2017.
The ECHR had already called for the release of the human rights activist Kavala in 2019. But: Turkey has so far ignored the judgment, even though, as a member of the Council of Europe, it is actually obliged to implement it.
Kavala and more than 50 other defendants are accused of attempted coup in connection with the Gezi protests, which were critical of the government in 2013. Kavala is also accused of “political and military espionage” in the context of the 2016 coup attempt.
Kavala himself had recently accused Erdogan of using his imprisonment for political purposes. “The real reason for my continued imprisonment” is the “government’s need to keep the fiction alive that the Gezi protests were the result of a foreign conspiracy,” said Kavala in a written interview with the AFP news agency.
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