On Saturday, the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron "not to mess" with Turkey, as tensions between the NATO allies escalate.
"Don't mess with the Turkish people. Don't mess with Turkey," Erdogan said during a televised speech in Istanbul.
Macron has strongly condemned Ankara during the standoff between Greece and Cyprus on one side and Turkey on the other over hydrocarbon resources in the eastern Mediterranean.
Macron also urged Europe to show a united front against Turkey's "unacceptable" conduct as he prepared a summit of Mediterranean states, the agenda of which is expected to be dominated by growing tensions with Ankara.
"We Europeans need to be clear and firm with the government of President Erdoğan, which today is behaving in an unacceptable manner," Macron told reporters in Corsica, where the summit is to be held.
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