Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday slammed his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron over his remarks asking Turkey to stop its drilling activities in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, Xinhuanet reports.
"The French president wants us to withdraw from the searches in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea," Erdogan said at a meeting in Istanbul.
"We are a guarantor in Cyprus, Greece is a guarantor, the United Kingdom is a guarantor, but who are you?" he said of Macron.
Speaking at a summit of the European Union in Malta last week, Macron voiced solidarity with Cyprus and urged Turkey to "stop its illegal activities in Cyprus's exclusive economic zone."