Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan claims Ankara has proof Israel was behind the July 3 military “coup” that toppled Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, Turkish media report.
Erdogan said the West was beginning to redefine democracy as a process that is not solely determined at the ballot box, although the poll represents “the people’s will.”
“This is what has been implemented in Egypt. Who is behind this? Israel. We have evidence,” Erdogan said, as quoted by the Hurriyet daily, during a meeting with provincial chairs of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).
Erdogan spoke of a meeting between Turkey’s justice minister and a “Jewish” intellectual in France before Egypt’s 2011 elections.
“The Muslim Brotherhood will not be in power even if they win the elections. Because democracy is not the ballot box’: This is what [the intellectual] said at that time,” the PM continued.
Erdogan did not clarify what connection the unidentified intellectual had to the Israeli government or how his alleged opinion proved Israel played any part in the recent ouster of Morsi.
In March, Israel attempted rapprochement with Turkey after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Erdogan to apologize for the 2010 Gaza flotilla raid that resulted in the death of eight Turks and one Turkish-American.
Erdogan accepted the apology and both sides agreed to carry out further discussions. The Turkish PM, however, said that normalization of bilateral ties would take time, insinuating that Turkey wanted to ensure victims of the raid were compensated and that Israel remained committed to easing the restriction of goods to Gaza before restoring relations, Haaretz daily reports.
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=)) That is the most ridiculous excuse I’ve ever heard. The Egyptian people did that, as a revolution, not a coup, and maybe that rotten Erdogan needs a reality check.
Did Israel gathered millions to demonstrate against Morsi? No the people did that on their own. Erdogan feels he will be the next to go even when Egypt ousters their islamist government. He’s scared that he won’t just be ousted but have pay for what he did to peaceful protesters in Gezi movement. His days are numbered and he knows it. He’s hopelessly trying to cling on his position, but Turks will show him they will not allow Turkey ruled by rotten rules of religion. Unfair, unreasonable, illogical, mean, uneducated, ROTTEN ways of the religion is in the past, not in future. His ugly face will be wiped off of Turkish history and will be forgotten as soon as he’s gone.