Ex Turkish PM: Erdogan, His Family Biggest Calamity to Turkey

On Monday, former Turkish Prime Minister and head of Future Party, Ahmet Davutoglu, denounced Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan policies, describing him and his family as the biggest calamity that has befallen the country.

In press statements, Davutoglu argued the foreign policy of the Turkey under President Erdoğan, saying that it is close to reaching a dead-end road as a result of the continuing deterioration of the Turkish economy and international isolation.

He pointed out that Erdoğan’s aggressive and adversarial foreign policy has led several Arab and European countries to reassess Turkey as a competitive, rather than a cooperative, regional actor.

Only Azerbaijan, Qatar, Somalia, and the half of Libya in control of the Government of National Accord (GNA) have remained Turkey’s allies.

According to the statistics of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), the number of recruits who have been transferred by Turkey to Libya so far has risen to approximately 18,000 mercenaries of Syrian nationality, including 350 minors under the age of 18.

In a statement, the SOHR reported that a new batch, estimated at 450 mercenaries from the pro-Ankara factions, returned from the Libyan territories after the end of their contracts to fight alongside the Government of National Accord (GNA) against the Libyan National Army (LNA).

Davutoglu, one of Erdogan’s closest men in the past when he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and then Prime Minister before his resignation, said that Erdogan’s eagerness to remain in power made him not hesitate to forge unnatural political alliances in principle.

Commenting on Erdogan’s recent call to the Turks to be patient with the hardships they are going through, Davutoglu added: “The nation will be patient. But on what calamity will they be patient? In all this, I wonder? You yourself are the calamity.