{"id":81957,"date":"2026-07-09T13:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T10:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=81957"},"modified":"2026-07-09T13:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T10:26:16","slug":"why-is-macron-wearing-sunglasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/why-is-macron-wearing-sunglasses\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Macron wearing sunglasses?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emmanuel Macron\u2019s sunglasses became one of the most talked-about details of the NATO Summit in Ankara. The French President was seen wearing them not only outdoors but also indoors and during evening events.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>He is reportedly wearing them because of an eye condition<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Blasts hit Damascus during Macron visit\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/blasts-hit-damascus-during-macron\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Macron<\/a> is said to be using the sunglasses due to discomfort in his eye. The French President had previously worn similar glasses at the World Economic Forum in Davos, during his meeting in France with Thailand\u2019s King Maha Vajiralongkorn and Queen Suthida, and during his visit to Damascus.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Seen wearing them in Ankara too<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Macron, who has been holding talks in Ankara for two days, also wore sunglasses during his NATO Summit meetings. He was also seen wearing them while jogging in Se\u011fmenler Park in the morning.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>\u201cEye of the tiger\u201d remark<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>In January, Macron was seen with a visibly red eye during a military event in southern France. At the time, he said the issue was \u201ccompletely harmless\u201d and jokingly described his eye as \u201cl\u2019oeil du tigre,\u201d meaning \u201cthe eye of the tiger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>French media had reported that the condition could be a subconjunctival hemorrhage, which occurs when a small blood vessel bursts in the protective tissue of the eye.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Video: Macron\u2019s sunglasses are back\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EWF5eI7df-M\" width=\"337\" height=\"599\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emmanuel Macron\u2019s sunglasses became one of the most talked-about details of the NATO Summit in Ankara. The French President was seen wearing them not only outdoors but also indoors and during evening events. He is reportedly wearing them because of an eye condition Macron is said to be using the sunglasses due to discomfort in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9192199,"featured_media":81958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[7618,77586,960,23467,80737,80736,80413],"class_list":["post-81957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-ankara","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-france","tag-nato-summit","tag-segmenler-park","tag-sunglasses","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9192199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81959,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81957\/revisions\/81959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}