Her Foreign Office Turkey summoned the ambassadors of nine countries for explanations. These are countries that have decided to close their consulates for security reasons or have issued travel advisories.

Travel agencies are reporting a possible terrorist attack in Istanbul after a Koran was burned in Sweden last week.

It is noted that Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Belgium and the United Kingdom are six countries that have closed their consulates.

Soylu vs USA – West: they are bargaining for fighters and psychological warfare

Turkey’s interior minister earlier launched a general attack against Western countries Suleiman SoyluSpeaking for US “bargaining” on F-16 and F-35 aircraft and for “psychological warfare” against Turkey in connection with the closure of consulates due to fears of terrorist attacks.

Speaking at an assessment meeting of the General Directorate of the Gendarmerie, the Turkish minister said that Western countries are waging a “psychological war” against democracy, closing their diplomatic missions under the pretext of a terrorist threat, without providing any evidence.

“America and the West do not want us to be independent and free. They started this psychological warfare the day we announced that we planned to receive 60 million tourists and received $46 billion in tourism revenue,” the minister said in Ankara.

Mr. Soylu added that “none of the countries that openly declared the possibility of terrorist attacks and named the places of such incidents contacted any of the Turkish special services.”

In a still vague report, he accused a “prominent ambassador” of orchestrating the closure of Western consulates “under the pretense of a security breach.”

Arrows against Biden

Then, turning his fire on the US, Mr. Soylu mentioned “so-called friends and allies” who are “bargaining with us on F-16s and F-35s and telling us, ‘We want this, but what will be done in the Senate? we don’t know,” he said, clearly targeting US President Joe Biden.

“Who do you think you are kidding? Who are you going to fool? What game are you playing?’ he said in a purely campaign speech at a state event in the Turkish capital.

But Mr. Soylow did not stop there. He further accused the US of strengthening Kurdish organizations and not wanting the independence and freedom of the Turks: “We know who the people who feed the terrorist organizations are. It is the United States of America that feeds the PKK-PDS. America and the West, which have provided money, logistics and labor for years, have not given up on their dream of creating a terrorist state. America and the West do not want us to be independent and free in this region,” he said in an impulse that echoed the statements of the leader of the Nationalist Action Party and government partner of President Erdogan, Devlet Bahceli.

“You are for July 15, we have an international operation,” he added, referring to the failed coup on July 15, 2016.