Faizel Patel – 30/10/2020
Murat Sofuoglu, a TRT World writer in Turkey has told Radio Islam he believes that French President Emmanuel Macron is trying to keep his political career above water.
Sofuoglu penned an article highlighting that Macron who emerged as a political alternative to France’s growing far-right, seems to be morphing into the far-right.
He says Macron has run afoul of his proclaimed centrism in his latest statements, in an apparent move to win French hearts and minds ahead of the 2022 elections.
Sofuoglu says Macron who has come under severe criticism from the Muslim world about his critique of Islam and defending caricatures of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) by French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is trying to survive.
“With the killing of French teacher Samuel Patty, Macron felt like ‘what’s going on, what do I do’, because the far right was saying ‘ you see we are right, Muslims are violent and they are attacking our teachers, they are attacking our people, they are attacking our values’ so what do you do? So Macron is like, ‘no I am going to [defecting] our republic and stuff like that.'”
Murat agrees that Muslims are being provoked by politicians so that they can be radicalised.
“Yes, that’s what’s happening. A lot of states actually in the world use these kind of tactics to suppress dissent or to suppress minorities. I think in South Africa you guys also experienced this kind of thing in the past in my understanding like when you push the people to the brink and actually people are going to feel that they have no other choice than to defend themselves.”
Meanwhile Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called on his country to boycott French goods amid a row over France’s tough stance on radical Islam.
In a televised address, ErdoÄŸan has angrily criticised his French counterpart Macron for pledging to defend secular values.
Listen to the interview with Murat Sofuoglu
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