Czech President Miloš Zeman accused Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of bringing the country closer to Islamic radicals by Islamizing Turkey, and that, as he said, by mediating the export of oil from the Islamic State, Turkey became its de facto ally.
"Why are they attacking the Kurds? Well, because (the Turks) are de facto allies of the Islamic State. So, although it is a member of NATO and wants to join the European Union, although it is unlikely that they will be accepted into it, there is information that at the time when the Islamic State occupied a large part of Syria and Iraq, Turkey was the one that mediated some logistical operations of supplying the Islamic State. Specifically in the export of oil," President Zeman said on Tuesday during a tour of the Karlovy Vary region.
Czech media reported today that Zeman said that Turkish President Erdogan is playing on the Islamization of Turkey.
"It is no longer the secular state of Ataturk, but rather a state that professes Islamic ideology. And from that it logically follows that it is close to Islamic radicals, from which it logically follows that it attacks the Kurds," Zeman said in a meeting with the residents of that region in the west of the Czech Republic. .
Previously, at a rally before regional elections in Turkey, the Turkish president showed clips from a video of a terrorist attack on Muslim worshipers in a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, as an illustration of the rise of Islamophobia and attacks on Islam, and strongly criticized the fact that the attack was not called Christian terrorism, when it was already the public refers to terrorist attacks carried out by Muslims as "Islamic terrorism".
President Zeman also responded to citizens' questions and recommended decentralization as a solution to the crisis in Ukraine because, as he said, Ukrainians and Russian-speaking citizens of Ukraine do not really stand each other.
"A reasonable solution is included in the Minsk agreements, but unfortunately no one is guided by it, and these are changes to the Constitution of Ukraine. Specifically, the decentralization of Ukraine so that not only Russian-speaking regions but all regions get greater independence," said the Czech president.
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