[Istanbuller]

French President Emmanuel Macron sent a letter to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stating his intent to improve bilateral relations, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu announced Friday.

According to Çavuşoğlu, who spoke to journalists on his return from an official visit to Pakistan, Macron underlined Turkey’s importance for Europe and his will to develop positive ties in the letter.

Çavuşoğlu pointed out that the two leaders could soon talk via videoconference or a phone call to discuss relations as well as regional issues, including the fight against terrorism, Libya and Syria.

Turkey’s top diplomat last week in a joint press conference with his Portuguese counterpart Augusto Santos Silva in Lisbon gave signals of warming ties and stated that Paris and Ankara have been working on a road map to normalize relations and that “it has been going well ... If France is sincere, Turkey is ready to normalize ties with France as well."

Turkey has repeatedly traded barbs with France over policies in Syria, Libya, the Eastern Mediterranean and Nagorno-Karabakh, as well as over the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in France.

The spat has risen to new levels in recent months as France has moved to crack down on some Muslim groups after several attacks on its soil.

Ankara and Paris previously traded barbs after French officials in 2018 met with the leaders of the PKK terrorist group's Syrian affiliate, the YPG.

The two countries are also on opposing sides in Libya, where Ankara backed the United Nations-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli against a 2019 offensive by putschist Gen. Khalifa Haftar. France is suspected of supporting Haftar, but officially insists it is neutral in the conflict.

Turkish officials have decried France's interference in the Eastern Mediterranean dispute, given it has no territory in the region. France accused Turkish warships of aggressive behavior after its warship tried to inspect a vessel in June that it suspected was violating a U.N. arms embargo on Libya, but Turkey has denied harassing the Courbet. The two countries' dispute escalated further after France sent naval assets into the Eastern Mediterranean to support Greek warships shadowing Turkish ones in disputed waters.

Last month, the EU prepared punitive measures over Turkey's dispute with members of Greece and the Greek Cypriot administration over rights to offshore resources in the Eastern Mediterranean but decided to postpone the measures until March despite an earlier push by France to sanction Ankara.

After months of tensions, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed their differences in a phone call in September, agreeing to improve ties. But, the two presidents later traded accusations over a host of issues as tensions flared again.
Source: https://www.dailysabah.com/politics/eu- ... -relations

Little Macron realizes Ankara's leadership.

It is also another terrible news for Greece. Circle is narrowing for this little and tiny country. I believe Greece can't maintain its independence.

[noemon]

More fake news by Turkish media.

French President Emmanuel Macron has sent a reply letter to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Erdogan is begging and he is not just begging France but Greece too.

[Istanbuller]

More fake news by Turkish media:



It seems Erdogan is begging and he is not just begging France but Greece too.

Fake news? The source you cited is Turkish as well.

It clearly shows that France also abandon your ridiculous claims after Germany did. Things are not going well in Athens.

[noemon]

Hurriyet is telling you the truth while Daily Sabah isn't. That is fake news.

Erdogan sent a letter begging Macron, Macron replied to it as is standard diplomatic protocol.

Erdogan is not just begging France but Greece too, the noose is tightening for you and he is growing desperate.

Greece is getting delivery of the French Rafales this month that render game over for your outdated airforce and the F-35's very soon as well.

USA, France and Greece are getting tighter thus the desperation and the fake news to make you feel better that something is changing for you. It isn't. Erdogan can send as many letters as he feels, he will be replied to as is customary but unless you stop your nationalist rhetoric to claim foreign territory as yours you are in for a very rude awakening.

[Istanbuller]

Erdoğan's letter was just a formal one between two countries large enough to pursue regional agenda. Greece can't fit into this definition. Erdoğan directly talks to France who is one holding you. You are just a vassal state. France is switching it to Turkey and Turkey will hold you. You are going to be Erdoğan's slave.

[noemon]

Erdoğan's letter was just a formal one between two countries large enough to pursue regional agenda. Greece can't fit into this definition. Erdoğan directly talks to France who is one holding you. You are just a vassal state. France is switching it to Turkey and Turkey will hold you. You are going to be Erdoğan's slave.

I told you in the summer that the Game is already over for you and that it is only a matter of managing Turkish public opinion in order to climb down from your extremely polemic rhetoric. I can see now that Turkish public opinion is ready to accept reality as you are hanging from Greek and French lips like elephants on a cliff.

For 2 months now, Erdogan is begging Greece and France.

The fact that a mere reply to Erdogan is treated by you and your media as a turning point in diplomatic relations demonstrates the extreme desperation of Turkey, not just its government but yours too.

There is a very clear way for Turkey to be rehabilitated and Turkey is already on a roadmap to do that and that is to remove the warships which Erdogan has obeyed and to not claim Greek territory as Turkish which Erdogan is clearly ready to obey too.

Once you stop claiming foreign territory and more especially European territory, both Greece and France and the US and the whole of Europe will embrace you, up to a certain point. Sanctions will be removed and relations will normalise.

It's up to you, you know what to do and you have already started doing it anyway.

[Ganeshas Rat]

Even if it would be true, do you think that phrases like 'another terrible news for Greece. Circle is narrowing for this little and tiny country. I believe Greece can't maintain its independence.' help your country somehow? Even if mocking the weak ones and stealing other nations' independence is a national tradition or something, it still isn't considered as something that gives respect.