ISTANBUL/PARIS – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that Emmanuel Macron’s warning that NATO was dying reflects a “sick and shallow” understanding, telling the French president “you should check whether you are brain dead.”
The comments drew a swift rebuke from the French Foreign Ministry, which summoned Turkey’s ambassador to Paris to protest over what a French presidential adviser called “insults.”
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