“As long as people support us, we will face terrorist organizations, imperialists and usurers,” he said today. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and continued by saying, “It’s not strange to me that Westerners say, ‘Erdogan must go.’ Because Erdogan is domestic and national. We are not digested because we have eradicated terrorism. You see that all Western magazines had front pages with the headlines “Release Erdogan”. They don’t need us because we paid off our debt and kicked the IMF out of Turkey.”

The Turkish leader, who is running for re-election for the presidency next Sunday, May 28, against the opposition presidential candidate, Kemal Kilicdaroglulifted his tone today against the West, but also against Greece, calling the transformation of Hagia Sophia from a museum into a mosque “liberation”.

“We freed her Saint Sophie Cathedral. They hate us because we liberated the Hagia Sophia,” Erdogan, 69, said, adding that the West is also concerned about the steps Turkey is taking to develop its defense industry.

“This country has built its own aircraft carrier. God willing, in the new period, as I have already negotiated with the British, the Spaniards or someone else, we will build a ship of a larger class than the TCG Anadolu. Thus, the Turkish fleet, the Turkish army will become even more powerful. We are already building frigates, etc. It’s easy for us. We build our submarines. In this way, our cooperation with the Germans and other countries will continue to become more powerful,” Erdogan said, even implying that anyone who criticizes Ankara’s actions is an enemy of Turkey, not a friend. “Have you ever seen Azerbaijan, Qatar or Libya worry about our successes? When we find out who is worried about our successes, we can see more clearly who is our enemy and who is our friend,” the Turkish leader said.

However, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Turkey showed particular aggressiveness towards the West in today’s statements. Suleiman Soyluwho even claimed that USA they traffic drugs internationally.

“If you dare, punish us,” Shoylo told the American president. Joe Biden, and continued: “We are not fighting the PKK, we are fighting the US. It is so simple. We do not have the PKK terrorist organization against us. We are not fighting against the PKK, but against the USA. The US comes and does everything at the border.”