Attacks on Russian cultural workers in West unacceptable, witch hunt – Turkish President

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a visit to the Dubai Expo 2020 for a Turkish national day ceremony, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022. Erdogan spent his second day in the once adversarial country mending relations and deepening commercial ties. The new page in UAE-Turkey relations points to a wider reset in regional strategies following a decade of strained ties and proxy wars. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

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*Our embassies in West have been facing cyber attacks, living under blockade for months, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said March 6

 

“Fascistic actions against people of Russian descent and Russian cultural figures living in the Western world are completely unacceptable. Look at the situation where a philharmonic orchestra director gets fired in Germany…”

President of the transcontinental Republic of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has expressed his dismay with attitude of West among which nations Russian cultural workers are being attacked.
These attacks on the Russian cultural figures, the Turkish President described as unacceptable.
President Erdogan made this condemnation at the opening ceremony of a diplomatic forum in Antalya, Turkey on Friday March 11, 2022.

Erdogan, according to TASS, said: “Fascistic actions against people of Russian descent and Russian cultural figures living in the Western world are completely unacceptable. Look at the situation where a philharmonic orchestra director gets fired in Germany as a friend of Putin’s? Is it nonsense? They are banning Dostoevsky’s works. Is it nonsense?”

The Turkish president earlier compared such actions to “a witch hunt.”

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on March 6 that Russian embassies had been facing cyber attacks for months, actually living under a blockade.

According to her, diplomatic mission workers, Russian compatriots and cultural activists have been receiving threats and “envelopes with unknown substances.”

On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation based on a request from the heads of the Donbass republics.

The Russian leader stressed that Moscow had no plans to occupy Ukrainian territories and the goal was to demilitarize and denazify the country.


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