Leader of an Algerian opposition party condemned on Sunday the Algerian prime minister for his remarks regarding Turkey
En Nahda Party's leader Fatih Rebii said they were supporting Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan's remarks regarding France's massacre in Algeria.
"Turkey has supported Algerian people with this stance against France," Rebii told AA correspondent on the phone.
Rebii said Turkey's stance on France should not be interpreted as an involvement in Algeria's internal affairs.
Algerian government should have assumed the same attitude Turkey had assumed, Rebii said.
Rebii said Turkey had always stood by Algerian people, and the two countries knew well about their history and they did not need a made-up history written by the French.
"If there had not been the Ottomans, Algeria would have been occupied by the Spanish and become Catholic. The Ottomans did not cause French colony in Algeria. The weakness of Algerian Muslims and siege of the Ottoman Empire by imperialists made our country a colony," Rebii said.
Rebii said he condemned Algerian Premier Ahmad Ouyahia's remarks, and they would support Turkey's stance until France accepted its massacres in Algeria and apologized.
Algerian people were still feeling agonies of heavy weapons and nuclear tests of the French, Rebii said.
Rebii said his party would ask Ouyahia government, that supported France, to resign.
Algeria Protects Its Religious, National İdentity Thanks To Ottoman Pact
North African experts say that Algeria could protect its religious and national identity thanks to the Ottoman pact.
North African experts defended this view against Algerian Prime Minister Ahmad Ouyahia's remarks that Ottoman Empire left Algeria to the French in three days.
The experts said executives of Algeria and Tunisia told the Ottoman executives that they wanted to be under Ottoman rule in line with a demand from their people in 1546.
Thus, they were under the Ottoman pact and could protect their existence and identities.
AA
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