The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Immigration and Tunisians Abroad Othman Jerandi had a phone call yesterday, April 5, 2022, with the Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu.

The Turkish ambassador in Tunisia was also summoned to the ministry headquarters, after the recent declarations made by the Turkish president about the situation in Tunisia.

In a statement posted to Twitter, Jerandi wrote: "I made a phone call with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey, and the Turkish ambassador was summoned. I informed them that Tunisia rejected President Erdogan's statement and considered it an interference in Tunisian affairs, and that the relations of the two countries must be based on the respect of the independence of the national decision and the choices of the Tunisian people alone, and that our country does not allow its democratic path to be questioned."