France/Islamophobia: Sarkozy Inciting Xenophobia According To Turkis

FRANCE/ISLAMOPHOBIA: SARKOZY INCITING XENOPHOBIA ACCORDING TO TURKISH PM

International Islamic News Agency
March 14 2012

ANKARA, 20 Rabi al-Thani/13 March (IINA)-Turkey’s prime minister
said recently that inciting xenophobia, particularly Islamophobia,
in order to win elections was so irresponsible.

Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan said it would be a historic mistake for
Europe, which had paid heavy prices due to fascism, to remain silent
to the new and emerging fascism wave.

“French President Nicolas Sarkozy is inciting discrimination and
xenophobia before presidential elections in the country,” Erdogan
told a gathering of his Justice & Development (AK) Party in Ankara.

Erdogan said Sarkozy had started to assume a more dangerous and
aggressive stance after French Constitutional Council corrected a
historic mistake regarding a law criminalizing denial of Armenian
allegations of incidents of 1915.

“Sarkozy is making xenophobia a matter of internal politics, and
making threatening remarks against foreigners in his country, which
are so dangerous remarks that take European Union’s (EU) universal
values and fundamental principles as a target,” he said.

Erdogan said when innocent people were killed in Gaza and people lost
their lives in Afghanistan and Syria was experiencing a massacre, it
is a shame of humanity for France to assume a synchronous xenophobia.

“Xenophobia, which has turned into a serious threat in many European
countries, is so obvious in France today. We expect European leaders
and institutions to see this threatening development and take immediate
measures,” he said.

Erdogan said Turkey believed that Europe would not make a mistake
and harm confidence among people across its borders as well as with
people outside its borders.

AH/IINA

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress