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EU leaders have gotten used to Turkish insults, but latest words come in times of military confrontation (Photo: Reuters/Umit Bektas)

Erdoğan whips up Muslim hate against Macron

Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has put himself at the forefront of a Muslim backlash against France's handling of the recent Mohammed cartoons killing.

Erdoğan did it with a string of headline-grabbing insults against French president Emmanuel Macron this weekend.

"What's the problem of the individual called Macron with Islam and with the Muslims?", Erdoğan said in a speech in Kayseri, in central Turkey, on Saturday (24 October).

"Macron needs treatment on a mental le...

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