PARIS (Anadolu) – French cement giant Lafarge is now exposed as one of the most important institutions supporting terrorism, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says.
“When I said how the French cement giant, called Lafarge, supported and helped terrorist organizations in northern Syria, the French did not understand this,” he said.
“I told this to (French President Emmanuel) Macron. Now in the French parliament, they asked Macron for Lafarge’s account,” Erdogan told the 12th Conference of Information Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Istanbul.
“At the moment, Lafarge has become one of the most important issues on the agenda of France. Lafarge is now fully exposed as one of the most important institutions supporting terrorism,” Erdogan added.
Lafarge was slapped Tuesday with a heavy fine of $778 million by a U.S. court for supporting several terror groups in Syria in 2013-2014, including Daesh.
“Today, it is revealed one by one with evidence and court decisions that those who slandered us yesterday did business with Deash, traded, and transferred millions of euros to terrorists in the same period,” he added.
Erdogan told the conference that the diversification of news sources and increased involvement of the media, especially social media, in daily lives bring many advantages as well as vital risks.
“Information pollution and disinformation are the forefronts of these threats,” he said.
During the two-day conference, ministers and high-level representatives from 57 countries discuss issues that will deepen cooperation in the fields of media, communication, and information in the Islamic world.