Erdoğan files complaint against Netherlands' Wilders, his ally calls Macron 'a schizophrenic'

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President and Justice and Development Party (AKP) Chair Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has filed a criminal complaint against Geert Wilders, the chair of the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) in the Netherlands, over tweets targeting him.

On Saturday (October 24), Wilders shared a cartoon of Erdoğan on Twitter and said, "terrorist." article alleging that Erdoğan has relations with "terrorist organizations"

"Fascism is not in our book, it's in your book. Social justice is in our book," Erdoğan responded to him on Sunday at a meeting of the AKP in the eastern Malatya province.

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Chair Devlet Bahçeli, an ally of Erdoğan, targeted Wilders and France's President Emmanuel Macron, who also traded barbs with Erdoğan recently, during his speech at his party's parliamentary group today (October 27).

"The animosity towards the Turks and Islam that dominates Europe is worrying. The crowded police operation against the Mevlana Mosque in Berlin is a vulgar attempt of assassination against our beliefs. The ignoble chair of the Netherlands' Party for Freedom has become so low that he calls the President a 'terrorist.'

"The recent embargo and blockades on Muslims in France hurt us deeply," Bahçeli remarked, calling Macron "a political schizophrenic" over his remarks about "reconstructing Islam."

Erdoğan previously said that Macron "needed mental treatment." (AS/VK)