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Erdogan's assault on Macron aims to divert eyes away from his own misrule

France is constitutionally Islamophobic, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claims.

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4 min read Last Updated : Oct 31 2020 | 1:17 PM IST

Almost three decades after the late Samuel Huntington hypothesized a coming “clash of civilizations,” there are those who — for their own cynical purposes — would actually welcome exactly that. Among them is Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

This month, he has once again picked a fight with Europe, and specifically France. The country is constitutionally Islamophobic, he claims. President Emmanuel Macron should get a mental-health checkup, he has said repeatedly. And Muslims everywhere should boycott French goods, Erdogan has urged, pretending to speak on behalf of an entire faith.

But Erdogan is picking this fight, like so many other unnecessary

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