France defiant as Turkish-led boycott spreads

As Turkey's calls for a boycott of French products spread amid growing tensions, France has described the Turkish position as ‘hateful’ and said it will not denounce its principles and values. FRANCE 24’s international affairs editor Armen Georgian says President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is using the spat to position himself as a spokesperson for Muslims worldwide.

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[midnightsuli]

As African Believe me France is the darkness of humanity

[yassroa]

France is like a bully kid who can't handle getting bullied back. LOL

[HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings]

Mind Begs the Question:
Denigrating Jew - Anti Semitism
Denigrating Muslims - Freedom of Speech?

[tormundgaint]

France will feel the pain when Muslim countries stop doing business with them. I don't know why French people so obsessed with Mohamed and drawing cartoons. Freedom of speech is understandable, but everything has a limit. Saying hi from Malaysia 🇲🇾.

[popeye]

My freedom of choice is to never buy any french & Israely products in my life.. every one should follow the same

[AbdulHadi-ljpj]

Hurting one's religious sentiment is not freedom of expression rather provocation 😠🇧🇩

[djoys]

How many boycotted and left France forever. Did any one, sofar??

[Change_Your_Thinking]

For all Muslims of the world Boycotting french and don't answer the haters take action not speech

[kamxplorer]

Hate speech is unacceptable... Macron allows hate speech is unacceptable. Forget Turkey, I am hurt and I am in London.
Stop making this political, freedom of speech comes with responsibility.

[SachinSingh-csdb]

Chinese state media CCTV aired a TV show depicting portrait of Prophet Mohammed...where is Erdogan and Imran Khan now?

[mujiriii]

Propaganda as always why only attack erdogan?? There are other countries fighting for this aswell

[mishik]

Please Europe close the door.God bless European civilization

[abdultuaheb]

OUR PROPHET. OUR HONOUR

Macron, people come and go,
and you too shall leave this
earth. Nations rise and fall, and
a time will come when France
it self shall not exist. But rest
assured, the legacy, of the
Prophet and the love that
all Muslims have for him, shall
continue to live long after you
and your nation are relegated
to the ink of hisrory book

[bayurocky]

insulting other religions is not freedom of speech, it is a form of hatred & racism.

[younesjonas]

Great work . boycott france
The most beautiful thing of Islam is that we can not do same thing with their religion as a muslims, and they know it
So the best way to show our anger is to tackle them economically and unitedly
French president jacques chiarc said. Without africa, france will slide into the rank of third world countries
God bless erdogan
Turkey is a large country and a leader in technology, science and drones
Greetings from Fez Morocco

[funzuno]

in Indonesia if you insult ethnicity, religion, race, inter-group you will not be killed but you will go to jail. apart from those mentioned above
then
you can get your freedom of speech

[Lionheartgrudge]

Don't report this as Turkey vs France. You guys definitely put our prophet's caricature outside your buildings. If that's your definition of freedom, it's our freedom to avoid French products.

[jmus]

The entire middle east, north africa and large parts of south east Asia have boycotted Israel for decades and Israel has prospered fantastically. So dont lose sleep France

[BLackeys]

I don't know why people are lying to themselves in the comments, you hate islam it's ok it's your point of view but use justice ...
A person have a store of icecream this store owner hate me I said it's ok let's discuss why you hate me and why you think I'm evil. The problem is that the store owner didn't accept to discuss and he painted a big poster of me naked as a cartoon and put it in the front of his store ...
As a very reasonable way to respond I didn't insult him I didn't attack him or even hate him I just stopped buying any product from him because icecream is luxury and I can do that and it's my right.
That's what happened here with Islamic world they are doing their rights to buy or not to buy nothing more !

[lemine]

It's funny how the French media is painting this as Turkey vs France issue, when the issue is Macron attitude toward Muslims and Islam !!!