Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday renewed his call for his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, to undergo mental checks a day after his comments had prompted Paris to recall its envoy to Turkey.
The Turkish leader accused Macron of being "obsessed with Erdoğan day and night" and said in a televised speech in the eastern province of Malatya: "The person in charge of France has lost his way. He goes on about Erdoğan all day. Look at yourself first and where you are going. I said in Kayseri yesterday, he is a case and he really must be checked up."
Erdoğan hit back at Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders over an insulting cartoon shared on social media platform.
"Fascism is not in our book, it's in your book. Social justice is in our book," Erdoğan said at a meeting of his ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party in the eastern Malatya province, calling Wilders a "fascist."
"The forces that make the world uninhabitable have put us on the target board because we disrupt their games and reveal their true faces," Erdoğan said, adding: "We will carry on."
His remarks came after Wilders, known for his anti-Islamic stance, shared on Twitter an insulting cartoon of the Turkish president that was denounced by several Turkish officials.
