ANKARA Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday backed down from his trouble to expel 10 Western ministers over their common statement of support for a jugged civil society leader.
He spoke after the United States and several of the other concerned countries issued identical statements saying they admired a UN convention that needed diplomats not to intrude in the host country’s domestic affairs.
Erdogan said the new statement “ shows they’ve taken a step back from the libel against our country”, adding “ They will be more careful now.” The Turkish lira pulled back from major lows on relief that Turkey and the West had pulled back from the point of what had hovered to come to the most serious political extremity of Erdogan’s 19- time rule.
The standoff began with a common call last week by the delegacies of the US, Germany, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, and Sweden for Turkey to snappily resolve its legal case against the jugged philanthropist Osman Kavala.
The 64- time-old civil society leader and businessman has been in jail without a conviction four times.
Sympathizers view Kavala as an innocent symbol of the growing dogmatism of political dissent Erdogan developed after surviving a failed military putsch in 2016.
But Erdogan accuses Kavala of financing a surge of 2013anti-government demurrers and also playing a part in the achievement attempt.
Erdogan said after chairing a press meeting devoted to the extremity spoke of his “ duty as head of state to give the necessary response” to foreign violations of Turkey’s autonomous rights.
“ The Turkish bar doesn’t take orders from anyone, and isn’t under anyone’s command,” Erdogan said in a televised commentary.
“ Our intention is absolutely not to produce an extremity but to cover our rights, law, honor, interests, and our autonomous rights.”
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