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Erdoğan accuses Macron of putting on a show during Beirut visit

Delivering a speech during a meeting of his ruling party's provincial leaders, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan blamed his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron for putting on a show during the Beirut visit following the deadly massive blast.

AFP WORLD
Published August 13,2020
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Erdoğan hit out at Macron for visiting Lebanon in the wake of its devastating blast in Beirut earlier this month, accusing him of "putting on a show".

"Macron's concern is to bring back a colonialist structure. We don't have desires like that," he said in a statement.