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Erdogan Says Israel Behind Egypt Coup

DSC_7541Turkey’s prime minister said Israel was behind the ouster of Egypt’s Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, and that Turkey has evidence to prove it. According to Turkish newspaper Today’s Zaman, Recep Tayyip Erdogan told members of his party during a meeting in Ankara on Tuesday: “Israel is behind the coup in Egypt, we have evidence.”
The Turkish Prime Minister cited a conversation he had with a “French Jewish intellectual” who predicted that the Muslim Brotherhood would not be permitted to rule even if it won an election “because democracy is not the ballot box.”
Turkish daily Hurriyet quoted Erdogan as saying “Now the West starts to say democracy is not the ballot box or not only the box but we know that the ballot box is the people’s will.”
The prime minister criticized the Western countries’ stance vis-à-vis Egypt’s “coup,” the paper reported, saying “The West should (understand) the description of democracy, they need to learn it.”
“This is what has been implemented in Egypt. Who is behind this? Israel,” the prime minister said and then cited the meeting between an intellectual and the justice minister in France before the 2011 elections. “Nobody can say the word ‘dictator’ where dictatorship exists. They hang (such people) as they do in Egypt,” Erdogan said. “Those who want to see a dictator must look at Egypt.”

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