Hamas 'Champion' Turkish PM Erdogan accuses Israel of ‘state terrorism’. (TOI).
ANKARA, Turkey – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday stepped up his rhetoric against Israel over its deadly air offensive on Gaza, accusing the Jewish state of committing “state terrorism” against the Palestinians.
Presenting himself as the sole world leader speaking up for the Palestinians, Erdogan said that any normalization in the troubled ties between Israel and Ankara was currently out of the question.
“Israel is continuing to carry out state terrorism in the region. Nobody, except us, tells it to stop,” Erdogan told members of his ruling party in parliament, accusing Israel of perpetrating a “massacre” of Palestinians. “To what extent will the world remain silent to this state terrorism?”
Supporters from his Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) often interrupted his address by shouting slogans like “Murderer Israel!”
Erdogan welcomed the ceasefire proposal as “very positive” and “precious.”
“I hope this ceasefire will be secured,” he said.
“But it appears that the blood of innocent Palestinian children is being exploited in the dirty politics of the Middle East,” he said.
Erdogan is due to host Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Turkey for talks on Friday. Hmmmm......Obama's BFF Erdogan.
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