Turkish presidential aide on Thursday slammed Le Point, a French magazine, for its cover branding President Recep Tayyip Erdogan an "eradicator". "It
Turkish presidential aide on Thursday slammed Le Point, a French magazine, for its cover branding President Recep Tayyip Erdogan an “eradicator”.
“It is clear why they [the French] attack our president [Recep Tayyip Erdogan]. They are in panic as their game was spoiled and their pawn in Syria, PKK [/YPG terror group], suffered a heavy blow,” Kalin wrote on Twitter.
The French magazine, slandering Turkey on “ethnic cleansing,” is in a country, he said, referring to France, “which colonized Algeria, Gabon, Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea, Congo, Tunisia, the Comoros, Madagascar, Djibouti, Mali, Benin, Chad and Morocco, massacred thousands, engaged in slave trade, and turned a blind eye to the Rwanda massacre”.
“Your days of colonialism are over,” Kalin said, and stressed that the Kurds are not and will not be their proxy.
French magazine targets Erdoğan in scandalous attack
French magazine Le Point – well known for its Islamophobic and anti-immigrant publications – has once again come to the fore with an outrageous claim. The magazine attacked Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, as it has done before, using the president as their cover model and titling it as ‘’Ethnic cleansing, Erdoğan’s method. Should we let Erdoğan threaten Europe?’’ Its aim was to condemn Turkey’s Peace Spring Operation in Syria, which was distorted by the publication.On Oct. 9, Turkey launched Operation Peace Spring to eliminate terrorists from northern Syria, east of the Euphrates River, in order to secure Turkey’s borders, aid the safe return of Syrian refugees and ensure Syria’s territorial integrity. Before Turkey’s presidential election on June 24, the extreme right-wing publication had used Erdoğan’s photo on its cover yet again with the scandalous title, ‘’Dictator,” never ceasing to attack Turkey and its president with its cock-and-bull stories.The founding father of Le Point magazine Claude Imbert, who died in 2016, had in fact a huge influence on publication policy of magazines with his writing and opinions against Muslims and immigrants, as well as his racist remarks.
Newsweekly Le Point this week put Erdogan on its cover with the label “eradicator” and “ethnic cleansing”.
On Oct. 9, Turkey launched Operation Peace Spring to eliminate terrorists from northern Syria east of the Euphrates River to secure Turkey’s borders, aid in the safe return of Syrian refugees and ensure Syria’s territorial integrity.
In its more than 30-year terror campaign against Turkey, the PKK — listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and the European Union — has been responsible for deaths of 40,000 people, including women, children and infants. The YPG is the Syrian offshoot of the PKK.