The leader of the Russian Republic of Chechnya in the Caucasus, Ramzan Kadyrov, has called on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to decide whether to support terrorism or normal Russian-Turkish relations.
“I openly address the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan: decide! “Either you gain the status of a state that publicly supports terrorists, or you support transparent and honest relations with the Russian Federation, without changing your beliefs behind its back,” Kadyrov wrote on his Telegram account. The Chechen leader even threatened Turkey with an “equivalent response”, namely to immortalize in the Chechen capital Grozny the name of the founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Abdullah Ocalan, who is serving a life sentence in prison.
According to Kadyrov, who has repeatedly stated publicly that he is a “simple soldier in the army of Russian General Vladimir Putin” and is accused of authoritarian rule in the Russian province under his responsibility, “as long as gangs find refuge in Turkey, “We reserve the right to retaliate against the names of terrorists,” state media reported.
“Can you imagine Russia officially giving shelter to an entire organized gang, which, for example, carried out a terrorist attack in Turkey and killed the president and then from the territory of a friendly state sends threats, insults to the deceased’s wife, to members?” of his family, to all the people? “Personally, I can not imagine such a cynical political act,” wrote the Chechen leader.
The Chechen governor also addressed the Russian Foreign Ministry, saying that the current actions of the Turkish authorities “pose a direct threat to the Russian-Turkish relations, which have been developing for centuries”, so care should be taken and “preventive diplomatic measures should be taken.” against similar events “, according to R. Kadyrov.
Kadyrov was outraged by the recent inauguration of a park in the Turkish city of Kerfez in honor of Dzhokhar Dudayev, the leader of the Chechen separatists who has been accused of tolerating or participating in terrorist attacks and was killed in a Russian intelligence operation. in 1996. Kadyrov’s father, Ahmad’s mufti of separatists, who initially split and supported Chechnya’s stay in the Russian Federation, was killed in a bomb attack in Grozny in 2004 during a victory celebration. of the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany.
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