Tunisia hits back at Erdogan 'interference'

TUNIS, Apr 06 (AFP): Tunisia has summoned Turkey's ambassador in protest against "interference", the foreign ministry said Wednesday, after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticised his counterpart in Tunis for dissolving the country's parliament.
President Kais Saied sacked the assembly last week, eight months after suspending it and seizing wide-ranging powers in a decisive blow against the democratic system born out of the country's 2011 uprising, which sparked the Arab Spring.
Tunisia's fragmented parliament has long been dominated by Ennahdha, an Islamist-inspired party close to Erdogan's ruling AKP and a bitter foe of Saied.
The Turkish leader had on Monday criticised Saied's latest move as a "blow to the will of the Tunisian people" and a "smear on democracy".