Turkey rejects Macron’s claim of election ‘interference’

Turkey condemns French president’s claim that Ankara might meddle in next year’s elections, dubbing it ‘unjust and inconsistent’.

Turkey has condemned Emmanuel Macron’s recent comments targeting Ankara as “unacceptable,” after the French president warned the Turkish government not to meddle in his country’s next presidential election. Macron told French television this week that Turkey was “playing on public opinion” and spreading “lies” in France through the use of state-controlled media, in the latest of diplomatic tensions between the two countries. Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy said on Thursday that Macron’s “unjust and inconsistent” statements were “unacceptable and contrary to the friendship and alliance between our countries”.