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ERDOGAN SLAMS EGYPT'S SISI AS 'ILLEGITIMATE TYRANT'
Arutz Sheva, Israel
July 18, 2014 Friday
by Elad Benari, Canada
Turkish Prime Minister says Egypt cannot be relied upon to negotiate
a truce with Israel.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday slammed Egypt's
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as an "illegitimate tyrant" and said
Cairo could not be relied upon to negotiate a truce with Israel.
"Is Sisi a party (to a ceasefire)? Sisi is a tyrant himself," Erdogan
was quoted by the AFP news agency as having told reporters.
"He is not different from the others," he said, adding that it was
Egypt's current rulers who were blocking humanitarian aid channels
to Gaza.
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri responded and said Erdogan's
comments were "unacceptable".
"They have no link with the events in Gaza and do not help in the
protection of the people of Gaza," Shoukri said at a news conference
in Cairo with his Italian counterpart Federica Mogherini.
Erdogan should rather push all the concerned parties for a ceasefire
in Gaza, said Shoukri.
Erdogan, who portrays himself as the global Muslim leader who speaks
up for Palestinian Arab rights, said supporting an Egyptian proposal
for a ceasefire would mean legitimizing the administration in Egypt.
"Egypt is not a party ... They are trying to legitimize (the Sisi
administration) in Egypt. It is not a legitimate administration. It
is illegitimate," he said, lashing out at Israeli attempts to exclude
Hamas.
"Hamas is a party there," declared Erdogan.
Turkey"s relations with Egypt have been strained over the past year,
since the ouster of former Islamist president Mohammed Morsi.
Last year, Erdogan condemned the military intervention that toppled
Morsi as an enemy of democracy, following which Egypt"s foreign
ministry summoned Turkey"s ambassador to Cairo in protest against
"Ankara"s interference in Egyptian affairs."
Erdogan has also been critical of Israel over its operation in Gaza,
and threatened to end the normalization process with Israel over
"state terrorism."
On Thursday, Erdogan accused Israel of attempting a "systematic
genocide" of Palestinian Arabs in Gaza.
In response, Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz reminded Erdogan
of the Armenian Genocide of 1915.
Arutz Sheva, Israel
July 18, 2014 Friday
by Elad Benari, Canada
Turkish Prime Minister says Egypt cannot be relied upon to negotiate
a truce with Israel.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday slammed Egypt's
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as an "illegitimate tyrant" and said
Cairo could not be relied upon to negotiate a truce with Israel.
"Is Sisi a party (to a ceasefire)? Sisi is a tyrant himself," Erdogan
was quoted by the AFP news agency as having told reporters.
"He is not different from the others," he said, adding that it was
Egypt's current rulers who were blocking humanitarian aid channels
to Gaza.
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri responded and said Erdogan's
comments were "unacceptable".
"They have no link with the events in Gaza and do not help in the
protection of the people of Gaza," Shoukri said at a news conference
in Cairo with his Italian counterpart Federica Mogherini.
Erdogan should rather push all the concerned parties for a ceasefire
in Gaza, said Shoukri.
Erdogan, who portrays himself as the global Muslim leader who speaks
up for Palestinian Arab rights, said supporting an Egyptian proposal
for a ceasefire would mean legitimizing the administration in Egypt.
"Egypt is not a party ... They are trying to legitimize (the Sisi
administration) in Egypt. It is not a legitimate administration. It
is illegitimate," he said, lashing out at Israeli attempts to exclude
Hamas.
"Hamas is a party there," declared Erdogan.
Turkey"s relations with Egypt have been strained over the past year,
since the ouster of former Islamist president Mohammed Morsi.
Last year, Erdogan condemned the military intervention that toppled
Morsi as an enemy of democracy, following which Egypt"s foreign
ministry summoned Turkey"s ambassador to Cairo in protest against
"Ankara"s interference in Egyptian affairs."
Erdogan has also been critical of Israel over its operation in Gaza,
and threatened to end the normalization process with Israel over
"state terrorism."
On Thursday, Erdogan accused Israel of attempting a "systematic
genocide" of Palestinian Arabs in Gaza.
In response, Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz reminded Erdogan
of the Armenian Genocide of 1915.