Turkey hits back at Macron over comments on Russia-Turkey split

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Turkey on Monday hit back at French President Emmanuel Macron over his comments that the weekend’s air strikes against the Syrian regime had driven a wedge between Ankara and its increasingly close ally Moscow.

Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag insisted that Turkish policy on Syria was independent of other nations, as signs grow of Western discomfort over Ankara’s alliance with Iran and Russia on Syria.

“Turkey’s Syria policy is not a policy of being on the same side or being opposed to another country,” Bozdag told reporters in Qatar in response to a journalist’s question about Macron’s remarks.

“Whoever defends what is right, we are on their side,” he added in televised comments.

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