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The Grand Turk
Turkey PM fires back at US over his claims on Morsi ouster
2013-08-25
[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

#4  egypt's current govt and Israel have also publically said, in effect, that Erdogan is nuts, the saudis and a few others have probably told their embassy to convey that same message privately
Posted by: lord garth   2013-08-25 19:15  

#3  Do you ever get the idea that this whole mess is scripted Kabuki theater?

They get on the phone, or Skype, and agree on who's going to say what?

After all, the goal of Bambi, Erdogan, Putin, et al., is the destruction of the U.S. They'll do anything to achieve their goal.

And the idiot "media" is glad to help them. >:-(
Posted by: Barbara   2013-08-25 15:06  

#2  The White House has to say something about it, if only to give itself cover while it fights Erdogan's war for him in Syria.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2013-08-25 12:18  

#1  "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.

What can you say?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2013-08-25 11:52  

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