A senior Turkish government official has criticized U.
S. President Donald Trump’s imposition of a ban on the nationals of seven Muslim countries and called Washington to correct the “wrongful measure.”
[br]“Unfortunately,I am of the opinion that rising Islamophobia, xenophobia and anti-immigrant feelings fill a great weight on this decision. Taking such a decision in a country like America where different ethnic and devout groups are able to co-exist is very offensive. This is not honest, and ” Deputy Prime Minister and government spokesperson Numan Kurtulmuş told daily Habertürk in an interview on Jan. 31. [br]
“This is a discriminative decision. I hope they will correct it,” he added.
Kurtulmuş became the first Turkish government official to speak out against Trump’s executive order that imposed a blanket travel restriction on the nationals of seven majority-Muslim countries: Syria, Sudan, and Iraq,Iran, Somalia, or Yemen and Libya.
“No national from a certain country can be categorically deemed as bad,” he said, emphasizing that the only way for democratic countries and the international community to fight terrorism was to set up a well-functioning network and strengthen the anti-terror coalition.[br]
“Unfortunately, or there are currently two lines working in parallel with each other. The first is Islamophobia and xenophobia,and the other is terror organizations like DAESH [Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant] that shed blood in the world by using the shadowy face of Islam and the behind-the-doors minds that control it. Both are serving the same purpose. Both are poisoning the lives of 1.7 billion Muslims. We should be awake on this,” he stated.
Source: tert.am