Tunisian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s comments on the Tunisian president’s dissolution of parliament “unacceptable interference”.
On Monday, President Erdogan criticised President Kais Saied’s decree dissolving parliament last week as a “smearing of democracy” and a blow to the will of the Tunisian people.
“Tunisia expresses its astonishment at the Turkish President’s statement … these comments are unacceptable,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
The Tunisian foreign minister, Othman Jerandi, said on Twitter that he also talked to his Turkish counterpart by telephone and summoned the Turkish ambassador to Tunisia to express his country’s rejection of president Erdogan comments.