Obama's BFF Turkey ‘cannot agree’ with US Gaza rhetoric.(HD).Turkey cannot agree with the U.S. rhetoric over the deadly Gaza strikes but this does not signal a rift between Ankara and Washington, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said yesterday. Ankara and Washington have different views on the recent Israeli operations in Gaza, Davutoğlu said. “As children were massacred in Gaza, Turkey cannot agree [with U.S. President Barack] Obama’s saying that Israel was using its right of self defense,” Davutoğlu said in a televised interview with private channel CNNTürk.
A global power like the U.S. should also reflect conscience, the minister said, adding that Washington did not act that way regarding the Gaza incident. “Yet, it does not mean Turkey is in a crisis with the U.S.” Davutoğlu said Turkey would act in light of its principles. The minister cited the Israeli attack on Gaza in 2008 and said the Tel Aviv administration was repeating its offensive just after the U.S. elections and prior to the Israeli ones. Davutoğlu said that during a recent phone conversation with U.S. Secretary State Hillary Clinton, he said Israel’s attack on Gaza had aimed to cause distress to Washington. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had criticized Obama last week over his stance on Gaza violence while President Abdullah Gül said everybody expected the U.S. to warn Israel at the time of the crisis.Read the full story here.
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