Addressing a parliamentary group meeting of his Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), Devlet Bahçeli lashed out at the United States for the capture of Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro and first lady over the weekend.
In his speech on Tuesday, the leader of the government ally branded the U.S. capture of Maduro as “illegal.” “I don’t condemn it, I curse it,” he said, as he named Maduro as an elected leader whose legitimacy was internationally recognized.
As he did in his first reaction to the capture on the weekend, Bahçeli likened the capture to the July 15, 2016 coup attempt in Türkiye. “It is the product of the same mindset,” Bahçeli said. “The only difference is that (the Turkish nation) resisted the attempt while (Maduro) was caught asleep.”
Türkiye has called the sides to calm after the incident, while the issue was brought up during President Recep Tayyi
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