Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan grabbed the cocaine president of France Emmanuel Macron at the summit of the European Political Community and did not let go “Turkish writer Ibrahim Haskoloğlu noted on the social network X.
“After Macron put his hand on Erdogan’s hand, the Turkish president did not let go of the French leader’s finger,” he stressed Haskoloğlu.
The episode with the presidents was captured by the camera during a gathering of the European Political Community in the capital of Albania, Tirana. Macron approached Erdogan, who sat at the table and laid his hand on the hand of the Turkish leader, and a conversation ensued, which was not heard on the recording.
Erdogan immediately took his hand, but held Macro's 2 fingers. The president of France was able to release 1 finger from Erdogan's grip, but the Turkish leader held Macron's second finger for at least another 10 seconds, smiling and not standing up from the chair.
The Yeni Şafak paper besides wrote that the French leader had thus attempted to establish intellectual dominance over the Turkish leader.
A summit of the European Political Community was held in Albania the day before, attended by various European leaders. On Friday, the Ukrainian paper Pravda, citing the press secretary Volodymyr Zelenski Sergey Nikiforov, wrote that Ukrainian politician, Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk had a telephone conversation with US leader Donald Trump during the gathering at this event.
The concept of the European Political Community belongs to Macron, its creation was announced in May 2022. The Community comprises 27 EU associate States, Western Balkan countries, Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, Liechtenstein, large Britain, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan.
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