Macron should stop talking Turkey because Turkey will just keep talking back
The French president’s rhetorical broadsides at his Turkish counterpart have lost their currency as there are no actions to back up his words
For Emmanuel Macron, the moment of truth is approaching at a rate of knots. The French president has again fired off rhetorical broadsides at his Turkish counterpart over the crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean. But words are not going to break Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s bones, and Macron will struggle to build an international consensus to use the economic sticks, much less the military stones to force a Turkish retreat.
The French leader’s verbal volleys have already lost a certain je ne sais quoi due to repetition. At Thursday’s gathering in Corsica of the leaders of the MED7 — France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Cyprus and Malta — Macron called for European countries to establish “red lines” for Turkish provocations...
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