Saudi Arabian Crown Prince attacks Turkey
CAIRO (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has described Turkey as part of a “triangle of evil” along with Iran and hardline Islamist groups, Egypt’s Al-Shorouk newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The Saudi prince also accused Turkey of trying to reinstate the Islamic Caliphate, abolished nearly a century ago when the Ottoman Empire collapsed.
His reported comments reflect Saudi Arabia’s deep suspicion of President Tayyip Erdogan, whose ruling AK Party has its roots in Islamist politics and who has allied his country with Qatar in its dispute with Saudi Arabia and some other Gulf states.
Turkey has also worked with Iran, Saudi Arabia’s arch-rival in the Middle East, to try to reduce fighting in northern Syria in recent months, and Iranian and Turkish military chiefs exchanged visits last year.
Al-Shorouk quoted Prince Mohammed as saying “the contemporary triangle of evil comprises Iran, Turkey and extremist religious groups.”
The prince spoke to Egyptian newspaper editors during a visit to Cairo, on his first foreign trip since becoming heir to the oil exporting giant last year.
He said the dispute with Qatar could be long-lasting, comparing it to the U.S. embargo of Cuba imposed 60 years ago, but played down its impact, dismissing the Gulf emirate as “smaller than a Cairo street”.
However, Prince Salman said Qatar would not be barred from attending an Arab summit hosted by Saudi Arabia later this month.
Writing by Dominic Evans, Editing by William Maclean
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-turkey/saudi-prince-says-turkey-part-of-triangle-of-evil-egyptian-media-idUSKCN1GJ1WW
Let’s not leave out the third evil state in the middle east, muslim triangle of merciless dictators, besides Turks/Azeris and Iran, there is the Saudi Arabian Crown Prince himself, who has executed its own young princes, as well as other opposition leaders. Execution rate has doubled since he was appointed crown prince in 2017. He is currently slaughtering thousands of families in “the war in Yemen, in which Saudi Arabia has killed thousands of civilians”. (The Times)