Italian Prime Minister: “Erdogan is a tyrant!” The new strategic emergency among Rome and Ankara

Thomas Henry
2 min readApr 10, 2021

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“You must be plain with the despots, however, participate”. Mario Draghi’s words about President Erdogan open a political encounter with Turkey. Late yesterday evening, the chief partook in a public interview to discuss the issues and destinations of the inoculation plan, yet an inquiry regarding global governmental issues provoked him to take an extraordinary position on the Turkish chief: “he is a tyrant”.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has called the Italian representative to Turkey, Massimo Gaiani, after the proclamations of the Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He reported the Turkish news organization Anadolu on Twitter. During a question and answer session Draghi, expressing that he “totally doesn’t share Erdogan’s conduct towards President Von der Leyen”, characterized the Turkish president as “a despot.”

The Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, “unequivocally denounced the explanations of the Italian Prime Minister delegated Mario Draghi against our chosen president. We reject these revolting and uncontrolled assertions to the sender.” At the birthplace of the discretionary conflict among Italy and Turkey, the expressions of Draghi in the public interview: “I can’t help contradicting Erdogan, I think it was not suitable to conduct. I was upset for the embarrassment that the President of the Commission Ursula von der Leyen needed to endure “, said the Prime Minister, and afterward added:” With these tyrants, we should call them for what they are “, underlined Draghi,” what is required, notwithstanding, one should be straight to the point in communicating one’s variety of perspectives and dreams of society, and he should likewise be prepared to coordinate to get the interests of his country. We need to track down the correct equilibrium ». Cases that sent the Turks into a fury.

In the first part of the day, after the flood of allegations, Turkey had come out of the dark and had gotten back to the sender the reactions of Erdogan’s ‘convention machismo’, which according to Europe would have been satisfied to leave von der Leyen as an afterthought line, saving to Charles Michel the rocker next to him. “Shameful allegations. During the gathering the convention was regarded ». The staff of Turkey and the EU “met before the visit and their solicitations were met,” was the rendition of the unfamiliar pastor, Mevlut Cavusoglu.

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Thomas Henry
Thomas Henry

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