ANKARA – US top diplomat has been summoned by Foreign Ministry overcontroversial tweet like in American Embassy Ankara.
American Embassy liked a Tweet aimed at Devlet Bahçeli, the chairman ofthe Nationalist Movement Party (MPH), amid rumours about his health issues.However, the next day the US diplomats apologised for it, stressing that itwas a mistake.
US Chargé d’Affaires in Ankara Jeffrey M. Hovenier was summoned to theTurkish Foreign Ministrylinkafterthe embassy liked a post on Twitter, a source said on Sunday. According toForeign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy, the diplomat had to explain theincident to authorities, Sputnik has reported.
The message predicting the collapse of the party was published by a memberof Turkish preacher Fethullah Gülen’s FETO group, which is blacklisted byAnkara as an armed terrorist organisation. The Turkish authorities blamethe movement for 2016 military coup attempt,linkwhichled to mass arrests across the country.