Turkey: ’Take your dirty hands off Turkey’ - Interior minister to US ambassador

Turkey’s Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu publicly criticised the US ambassador to Ankara, telling him to take his ’dirty hands’ off the country, during a speech in Antalya on Friday. “Every US ambassador who comes to Turkey is in a hurry about … how I will make a coup d’etat. … What can I do, how can I harm Turkey, how can I help my superiors? … He gathers other ambassadors, he whispers furtively with them,“ Soylu claimed. “I say to the American ambassador here: I know which journalists you use to write articles, take your dirty hands off Turkey,“ he continued. “We know what you are doing, what steps you have taken, how much you want to stir up Turkey.“ Ankara summoned the US ambassador Jeffry Flake and those from eight other European countries after they temporarily shut their embassies in Turkey and issued travel warnings, following a series of Quran-burning protests. __________________ ShanghaiEye focuses on producing top-quality co