President Erdoğan: Fascism not in our book, it’s in yours
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan addressed at a meeting of the party’s 7th Ordinary Congress in the eastern Malatya province.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday hit back at Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders over an insulting cartoon he shared.
"Fascism is not in our book, it’s in your book. Social justice is in our book," Erdogan said, calling Wilders a "fascist."
"The forces that make the world uninhabitable have put us on the target board because we disrupt their games and reveal they’re true faces," Erdogan said, adding: "We will carry on."
’TAKING SIDES WITH AZERBAIJAN’
“We were blamed for taking sides with our Azerbaijani brothers defending their lands in the Caucasus,” Erdogan said, adding that some Americans called Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev telling him that they could impose sanctions on Turkey.
Relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia have been tense since 1991, when the Armenian military occupied Upper Karabakh.
Four UN Security Council resolutions and two from the UN General Assembly, as well as international organizations, demand the withdrawal of Armenian forces from the occupied territory.
Since recent clashes erupted on Sept. 27, Armenia has repeatedly attacked Azerbaijani civilians and forces, even violating two humanitarian cease-fires announced earlier this month.
World powers, including Russia, France, and the US, have called for a new and lasting cease-fire. Turkey, meanwhile, has supported Baku’s right to self-defense and demanded the withdrawal of Armenia’s occupying forces.
Regarding the S-400 missile systems, Erdogan recalled that it was Turkey that stepped in to purchase US’s F-35 fighter jets.
“You [the US] threatened us. You said ’Send the S-400s back to Russia’. We are not a tribal state. We are Turkey,” he stressed.
Since 2017, Turkey and the US have been at odds over Turkey’s decision to buy the S-400, a Russian-made missile defense system, with the US threatening to break its contract to sell Turkey F-35 fighter jets over the dispute.
