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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Clamps Down On Macron’s Finger In Tense Diplomatic Moment


The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was seen grabbing the finger of French president Emmanuel Macron, clearly in a tense moment at...

The incident comes amid ongoing tensions between Turkey and France over different geopolitical issues associated with NATO enlargement, Mediterranean energy rights, and alternative ways to respond to the Russian war in Ukraine. While Macron has portrayed himself as one of the leading voices laureating exceptions for Putin’s aggression in Europe, Erdoğan has kept a much more ambiguous front, mixing alongside his NATO obligations economic considerations with Moscow. The summit in Albania was supposed to serve as a forum to foster European unity against Russia’s war in Ukraine, which makes the stiff exchange between two focal members of NATO all the more remarkable.

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