Turkey and Pakistan’s campaign to boycott French products backfires as Saudi Arabia steps in

New Delhi: The temperament displayed by French President Emmanuel Macron to battle the novel Islamist terrorism after the brutal homicide of trainer Samuel Paty and the outrage by the French residents over the incident has led to a brand new geopolitical tussle.

In response, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attacked Macron and mentioned, “The person in charge of France has lost his way. He goes on about Erdogan all day. Look at yourself first and where you are going…he is a case and he really must be checked up.”

Turkey additionally launched an aggressive marketing campaign to boycott French items from its markets. 

In a present of help to Turkey’s marketing campaign, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan tweeted that Macron selected “to encourage Islamophobia by attacking Islam rather than the terrorists” including that Macron selected “to deliberately provoke Muslims, including own citizens.”

Recently, boycott France merchandise was a high pattern in Pakistan. It joined Turkey in attacking France and Pakistanis have been aggressively trending a number of hashtags over social media platforms, urging folks to boycott French merchandise, abusing the French President, and threatening French residents.

Besides Pakistani residents staying everywhere in the world launched a worldwide marketing campaign to boycott French merchandise. Many distinguished Pakistani Twitter handles with a blue- tick spat venom on French President Macron and urged Muslims worldwide to boycott merchandise of the nation.

Editor of a distinguished Pakistani each day ‘The News’, Ansar Abbasi urged the Islamic fraternity of the world to protest in opposition to France in opposition to the ‘shameful’ assault on Muslims by utilizing the hashtag #MacronGoneMad.

Responding to the boycott marketing campaign, Emmanuel Macron tweeted, “We will not give in, ever. We respect all differences in a spirit of peace. We do not accept hate speech and defend reasonable debate. We will always be on the side of human dignity and universal values.”

It is believed that by launching the strongest assault within the French authorities amongst all Muslim international locations and main the boycott marketing campaign, ‘Sultan’ Erdogan would be capable to challenge himself because the ‘Messiah’ of Muslim Ummah and chief of the ‘Caliphate’. Observers see this as Erdogan’s efforts to encash the chance to problem Saudi Arabia’s management of Islamic world.

Unlike Turkey and Pakistan, the supreme physique of Muslim international locations, the Organisation for Islamic Cooperation (OIC) condemned the act of ugly killing of the French trainer, in addition to expressing its issues on ‘ongoing apply of operating satirical caricatures depicting the Prophet Muhammad”. Taking a divergent route from the balanced strategy of the OIC, Turkey-led Islamic block unilaterally attacked the French authorities and sympathised with the attacker.

Turkey and Pakistan’s aggression was not taken in good style by Saudi Arabia, which has been a continuing goal of Turkish President Erdogan in his efforts to displace Saudi because the chief of Islamic world.

Citizens of Saudi Arabia have, in truth, launched a large marketing campaign to boycott Turkish items. Saudi outlets and supermarkets have boycotted Turkish items and changed Turkish gadgets with the Greek ones. Expressing solidarity with Greece on Turkish aggression in addition to denoting the provision of Greek merchandise of their shops, Saudi merchants hung Greek flags outdoors their institutions.

The Saudi residents have taken up a complete marketing campaign in opposition to Turkey on the premise of three ideas – No funding, no imports and no tourism. It is putting to notice that the marketing campaign has not been launched by the Saudi Government, somewhat it’s pushed by the frequent public sentiments of the Saudi residents.

Besides boycotting native merchandise made in Turkey, Saudi residents are additionally boycotting the merchandise of worldwide manufacturers produced in Turkey. Such a boycott would possibly flip Turkey right into a hostile funding vacation spot and thereby compelling corporations to drag out their investments from the nation.

Saudi Arabia has been one of many greatest markets for import of Turkish merchandise. Besides, Turkey additionally makes use of the nation as a transit level to commerce its items elsewhere within the area. Hence, the boycott by Saudi residents, if continued for lengthy, may cost a little an enormous worth for Turkey.

Current developments recommend that efforts of Turkey and Pakistan may need begun to backfire. The sturdy resolve of the French President and the retaliation by Saudi residents would possibly influence the economies of each the international locations, that are already not in an excellent state. Besides financial and diplomatic losses for Turkey, the tussle on boycott marketing campaign can be going to inflict large strategic and diplomatic losses for Pakistan.

Pakistan’s determined soar in Erdogan’s anti-French rhetoric and unwarranted threats from the Pakistani management and elites may need added to the displeasure of Saudi Arabia, which has been disgruntled on Pakistan’s help of unilaterally projecting Erdogan because the tallest chief of the Ummah. Besides, Pakistan may need discovered a brand new antagonist in one other world superpower — France!

Nevertheless, the tussle between pro-France and pro-Turkey international locations is definitely going to be intensified within the subsequent few days, throwing reflections on the rising geopolitical dynamics of the world.