Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday (19/11), describing Israel as a terrorist state in the Gaza Strip launched pembomannya, underscoring hostility to the former ally of Ankara since the relationship between the two collapsed in 2010.
His comments came after nearly a week of Palestinian rocket attacks into Israel and Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip. An Israeli missile killed at least 11 Palestinian civilians, including four children in the Gaza Strip on Sunday (18/11).
"Those who associate Islam with terrorism close their eyes in the face of mass killings of Muslims, turn their heads from the massacre of children in Gaza," Erdogan said in a conference Eurasian Islamic Council in Istanbul, Turkey.
"For this reason, I say that Israel is a terrorist state, and actions is an act of terrorism," Erdogan said, as quoted by Reuters - were monitored in Jakarta, Monday (19/11 night.
Relations between Israel and Turkey, which had been the only Muslim ally for Israel, destroyed after Israeli marines stormed an aid ship in 2010 to impose a naval blockade on the Gaza Strip, which is controlled by Hamas.
Nine Turkish citizens were killed in an Israeli commando personnel clashes with activists on board.
Ankara expel the Israeli ambassador and froze military cooperation after a UN report on peritiwa was issued in September last year. Most of the report is to free the Jewish state.
In early November, Turkey held absentia of four former Israeli military commanders associated with the invasion of 2010.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will visit the Gaza Strip on Tuesday (20/11), with a group of foreign ministers of the Arab League.
Sources:
http://www.republika.co.id/berita/internasional/palestina-israel/12/11/19/mdqkxa-pm-turki-israel-adalah-negara-teroris
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