Casablanca - Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Integration, Sebastian Kurz, has asked the Turkish community to leave Austria if they want to demonstrate in support of the Turkish Recep Tayyip Erdo?an against the failed military coup.
Casablanca – Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Integration, Sebastian Kurz, has asked the Turkish community to leave Austria if they want to demonstrate in support of the Turkish Recep Tayyip Erdo?an against the failed military coup.
According to German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung, referenced in Al Jazeera, the Austrian government has summoned the Turkish ambassador to Vienna today to discuss the events and demonstrations organized by the pro-Erdo?an protestors in Austria.
The minister stated in a television interview that the demonstrations in Austria in favor of the legitimate government are not at all worthwhile. He added that those who want to involve themselves in the internal affairs of Turkey are free to leave the country.
Sebastian Kurz, who has been Austria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Integration since 2013, has distinguished himself as an ardent opponent of the security measures and the campaign of arrests of the coup plotters led by the Turkish government and Turkish Intelligence Services.
Kurz has called upon the European leaders to stand firm against Turkey. He addressed a statement to the Turkish president claiming that they “will not allow a dictator state to emerge and grow in Turkey.” The reaction of the Turkish government, Kurz continues, “is exaggerated and abusive … especially with respect to reinstating the death penalty.”
The same minister made a multiple-day visit to Egypt in May 2015 and met with the Egyptian president Abdelfattah Al-Sisi, who rose to power as a result of a coup against his predecessor, Mursi, who was sentenced to death by an Egyptian court.
Edited by Elisabeth Myers
