George Soros is facing mounting pressure from European right-wing politicians who have been recently joined by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Apart from his battles in Europe, this year the American investor and founder of Open Society Foundations has tangled with Facebook branding it a ‘menace to society.'
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has joined the chorus of European conservative leaders, accusing Hungarian-born American billionaire George Soros of “dividing nations” and “shattering” them.
Erdogan's comment came in response to the European Court of Human Rights's (ECHR) 20 November ruling on Selahattin Demirtas, the detained former co-chair of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), and Commissioner Dunja Mijatovic's intervention in the case of jailed Turkish civil society activist Osman Kavala. The ECHR challenged the decision of Turkish authorities and stated that Ankara had violated the European Convention on Human Rights.
“The person, who financed terrorists during the Gezi incidents, is currently in prison [Osman Kavala]. And who is behind him? The famous Hungarian Jew George Soros. This is a man who was assigned to divide nations and shatter them. He has so much money and he is spending it in these ways,” Erdogan said as cited by Hurriyet Daily News.
It is not quite clear whether the Turkish president was disappointed by supposed Soros's meddling or rising tensions between Ankara and Brussels.
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