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Turkey PM fires back at US over his claims on Morsi ouster
 [Al Ahram] Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday criticised Washington for its response to his claims of Israel's involvement in the Egypt crisis. The Turkish leader on Tuesday accused the Jewish state of being behind the military-backed ouster of Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi last month.Erdogan's accusation was furiously rejected by the White House describing it as "offensive and unsubstantiated and wrong." "Why is the White House making a statement on this? The White House should not have spoken about this. If there's somebody to speak on this, it should have been Israel," Erdogan said in televised remarks Saturday. He also said that the White House's statement "upset" him, calling Washington's approach to its NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... ally "unbecoming." Posted by: Fred 2013-08-25 |
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