A statement issued by the Turkish Foreign Ministry said that French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent statements against his Turkish counterpart are regrettable and contradictory.

According to the Anatolia News Agency, Hami Aksoy, a spokesman for the Turkish Foreign Ministry, confirmed:

“At a time when Turkey has taken steps to ease tensions between Ankara and Paris and make the relationship more friendly, Macron made these statements against Erdogan and Turkey .. This is unfortunate and unacceptable.”

Aksoy wrote that Macron’s statements about the deliberate questions in this program were against the friendship and alliance between the two countries and we consider them unacceptable, indicating that Turkey has “legitimate” policies on issues related to the Mediterranean, Syria and Libya.

Aksoy added that “Macron’s statements against Erdogan and Turkey are unnecessary at a time when we are trying to reduce tension and establish peace and friendship between Turkey and France.”

The current problems between the two countries also stem from incompatibility and lack of intimacy.

We remind you once again that during this period, Turkey will respond in the same way to the negative and positive attitudes and rhetoric of France.

According to Aksoy, it is clear that this plan and these baseless allegations were deliberately presented at the EU summit in order to refute the truth of Turkey’s European claims, but it will not achieve its goals.

He also indicated that Turkey would remain one of NATO’s strongest allies through its regional policy.

Aksoy said about Macron’s allegations of Turkish interference in the French elections: “Turkey has no plans in French domestic politics other than the welfare, peace and harmony of the Turkish community, which amounts to about 800 thousand people.”

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According to local Turkish agencies, the anti-Turkish measure by the Dutch parliament to recognize the so-called “Armenian Genocide of 1915” was met with a sharp reaction from the Ankara government.

Where a spokesman for the Turkish Foreign Ministry, Hami Aksoy, condemned the step taken by the Dutch parliament today (Friday), saying that rewriting history with political motives is invalid.

The Anatolia News Agency also quoted Aksoy as saying in a statement: that the councils and gatherings are not a place to write history and bring it to trial.

“Those who agreed to this decision [the Dutch Parliament] seek to gather demagogic voices, instead of searching for the truth that happened in 1915.”

Then he called the signatories to the bill in the Dutch Parliament to consider the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, as well as the rulings of the European Court of Human Rights.

According to the report, a spokesman for the Turkish Foreign Ministry said to the Netherlands that Armenia has never responded to the country’s plan to form a joint historical commission to investigate allegations of genocide.

In a sign that Dutch lawmakers are far from the truth, Aksoy asked the government to fight against Islamophobia, racism and xenophobia in its country rather than discriminatory measures against Turkey.

Earlier, Turkish prosecutors launched an investigation into the extremist Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders’ insult to the president for suing him.

On the other hand, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized Western countries’ support for terrorist groups, saying that those who cooperate with terrorists will be lost in the black hole of history.

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A Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman accused the Greek officials of trying to disrupt EU relations with Ankara.

According to the Anatolia News Agency, Ankara accused the Greek officials of trying to obstruct the European Union’s efforts to pursue a positive agenda towards Turkey.

In reference to the meeting held in Athens in the presence of the foreign ministers of Greece, France, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and the Greek Cypriots. Turkey said that Greek officials are working to improve relations between Turkey and the European Union.

Hami Aksoy, a spokesman for the Turkish Foreign Ministry, said that no meeting on the region could succeed without the presence of Turkey. Which is an important country in the region, and the Turkish Cypriot sector.

He said in another part of his speech, when he claimed that the meeting was not directed at any country, as the Greek Foreign Minister [Nikos Dendias] made statements and baseless accusations against Turkey.

And the purpose of holding this forum is to unite countries towards hostility to Turkey.

According to a Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman, blaming Turkey’s regional policy, which is based on the people and the law, is not the same as those who open their doors to the coup plotters.

A spokesman for the Turkish foreign policy and diplomacy apparatus said that the countries that held the meeting at the initiative of Greece are working to pressure Turkey at any cost.

From creating instability in Libya to creating a corridor to send terrorists to Syria and Iraq in recent years.

It is interesting that these same countries have been silent for years against Armenia’s occupation of the lands of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

Aksoy said that Turkey has repeatedly called for a regional conference on the conflict in the eastern Mediterranean with the participation of all countries in the region, including the Turkish Cypriot part, which Turkey calls the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

Now that the countries surrounding Turkey held such summits in the Mediterranean, this shows their hostility to Turkey.

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Referring to the country’s readiness to resolve bilateral disputes with Greece on the basis of bilateral talks, Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Aksoy said: “Of course, Turkey and Turkish Cyprus will take steps to win their rights and interests.”

According to Turkish news agencies, Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Aksoy said, in response to Greece, which criticized the new announcement of the new Turkish ship Nautex in the Mediterranean waters, that Turkey is carrying out its regional activities in accordance with international law.

“Greece, which has again made baseless allegations in this regard, has again made its exaggerated claims, and has staged vain protests against Ankara after Turkey announced Nautex.

Referring to Turkey’s willingness to resolve differences between the two sides on the basis of bilateral talks, Aksoy said: “Of course, our country and the Turkish Cypriots will take measures to win their rights and interests.”

The spokesman for the Turkish Foreign Ministry added that Greece should avoid taking steps that would increase tensions, rather than making baseless allegations and complaining to third parties as usual.

To resolve the bilateral disputes in addition to the issues of the Eastern Mediterranean, we call on Greece once again to negotiate without preconditions.

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A spokesman (Hami Aksoy) for the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement: “Greece has closed many primary schools of the Turkish ethnic minority in Western Thrace over the past twenty-five years, using excuses such as austerity and lack of knowledge.”

This measure was done without consulting the country’s ethnic Turkish minority, and this quorum has been dubbed “temporary suspension”, and in fact, it is a systematic closure.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry’s statement stressed that the latest example of the continuation of this process is the closure of eight other primary schools in the western Thrace region.

Aksoy added, “With this decision, the number of primary schools for the ethnic Turkish minority, Greece, 25 years ago, reached 231, and with repeated closures, the number was reduced to 115 schools.”

The Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesperson also stressed: “The European Union monitors systematic violations of human rights in one of its member states. Turkey supports the position of the Turkish minority in Western Thrace and calls on the international community and human rights organizations to consider closing Turkish ethnic minority schools in Greece.

Hami Aksoy said, “Turkey’s efforts to solve the educational issues of the Turkish ethnic minority in Western Thrace will continue firmly, in communication with the Greek authorities and in accordance with the principle of reciprocity stipulated in the Treaty of Lausanne.”

The Treaty of Lausanne is the name of the peace treaty signed in 1923 between the members of the Turkish Grand National Assembly, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Japan, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, Portugal, Belgium and Yugoslavia in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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