Erdogan Slammed for Comments On Zionism
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Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan arrives for the fifth United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) forum in Vienna, Feb. 27, 2013. (photo by REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader )
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s remarks equating “Zionism” to a “crime against humanity” at the Fifth Global Forum of the Alliance of Civilizations on Feb. 28 received strong reactions from the U.N. secretary-general, United States and Israel. His remarks, however, supplement what Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said at a special session of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on Feb. 6. “In the course of the 65 years since the establishment of [Israel], it has imposed war against the people of Palestine and the regional countries,” Ahmadinejad said. “Hearing the name of Zionist regime is today synonymous with war, death and bloodshed.” And Erdogan’s remarks were, “It’s necessary that we must consider — just like Zionism or anti-Semitism or fascism — Islamophobia as a crime against humanity.”
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