Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan joked on Thursday about his rocky relationship with French head of state Emmanuel Macron, telling a news conference: “Our wives get along, not us.”
Emine Erdogan, the wife of the Turkish president, and the French first lady Brigitte Macron maintain more than cordial relations, despite the usual tensions between their husbands who spoke this Thursday in Prague within the framework of the first meeting of the European Political Community.
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Last November, Emine Erdogan’s entourage told AFP that relations between the two women, regularly photographed together at international summits, were in good shape.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan was filmed on Thursday joking with the French president, proposing France’s membership in the Organization of Turkic States (OTS), which includes, in addition to Turkey, Turkic-speaking countries in Central Asia and Azerbaijan.
“We will admit you if you want,” he told Emmanuel Macron in the presence of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
For his part, French President Emmanuel Macron, who slapped the Turkish head of state on the back, said that he insisted on Thursday with the latter on the need to fight against any “circumvention” of sanctions against Russia, in the context of the war in Ukraine.
Source: BFM TV
