The president of Turkey said Friday that Donald Trump’s proposed ban on Muslim immigrants is not “remotely possible.”
“Well, I don’t think that this is remotely possible because politics is a marathon and it’s a long process,” said Recep Tayyip Erdogan through a translator during a MSNBC interview aired Friday morning. “Many things can be said throughout the rallies before elections and things will turn out to be very different post-elections. No political figure, no politician in this world is confined to their own local grounds.”
The Republican nominee has modified the Muslim ban he proposed during the primaries to focus on immigrants from countries with ties to terrorism. Turkey is a democratic country that is mostly Muslim.
Erdogan refused to say whether he believed Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump would have a better relationship with Turkey.
“Well, you are entrapping me. I’m not going to fall into that trap,” Erdogan said. “The best thing for me is to see the will of the people being served in the United States, the choice of the American people will be the right choice. I believe democracy more than anything else.”
