India slams Turkey over Kashmir remarks

February 17, 2020 14:32

The MEA statement on Turkish president Erdogan's remarks on Kashmir during his visit to Islamabad over the weekend.

"India has made a strong demarche with the Turkish government on remarks made by President Erdogan on the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir during his recent visit to Islamabad. These remarks reflect neither an understanding of history nor of the conduct of diplomacy. India finds that completely unacceptable. We particularly reject the repeated attempts by Turkey to justify the cross border terrorism practiced so blatantly by Pakistan. These developments have strong implications for our bilateral relationship. They distort events of the past to advance a narrow minded view of the present," the MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said.

India also made a strong demarche with the Turkish Government. This recent episode is but one more example of a pattern of Turkey interfering in the internal affairs of other countries.

Erdogan made the remarks during a joint declaration of the Pakistan-Turkey high-level strategic cooperation council in Islamabad.

In his speech to the joint sitting of the Pakistani parliament, Erdogan had asserted that sufferings of Kashmiris had been aggravated by Indias steps taken in recent months, referring to the removal of constitutional autonomy and restrictions on communications. This approach, which aggravates the current situation and revokes the freedom and rights of the Kashmiri people, does not bring any benefit to anyone, said the Turkish president.

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