On October 23, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lashed out at ambassadors of 10 countries for urging Turkey to release Osman Kavala, a philanthropist whom the Turkish authorities accused of sponsoring opposition protests in 2013 and 2016 and of espionage.
Kavala has spent four years in detention without a conviction. The European Court of Human Rights called for his release two years ago and said Kavala’s imprisonment was meant to silence him.
Speaking before the crowd in the northwestern city of Eskişehir, Erdogan said he ordered the foreign ministry to declare the diplomats “persona non grata” and expel them.
The reason? Erdogan declared they “cannot dare to come to the Turkish foreign ministry and give orders.”
That is misleading.
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