{"id":18291,"date":"2010-04-08T21:54:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T18:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=18291"},"modified":"2013-10-13T00:08:39","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T21:08:39","slug":"turkish-pm-erdogan-says-israel-is-threat-to-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/04\/08\/turkish-pm-erdogan-says-israel-is-threat-to-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish PM Erdogan says Israel is ‘threat to peace’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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Turkey’s Prime Minister has described Israel as the “main threat to peace” in the Middle East.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Recep Tayyip Erdogan was speaking during a visit to Paris.<\/p>\n

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded saying he regretted Turkey’s “repeated attacks” on Israel.<\/p>\n

Relations between the two countries have been worsening since the Israeli incursion into the Gaza Strip in 2009, made worse by a recent diplomatic row.<\/p>\n

Mr Erdogan was speaking to journalists before meeting the French President Nicolas Sarkozy.<\/p>\n

“It is Israel that is the main threat to regional peace,” he said.<\/p>\n

“If a country uses disproportionate force, in Palestine, in Gaza, uses phosphorus bombs we are not going to say ‘well done.'”<\/p>\n

Both Israel and Hamas, which control the Gaza Strip, have been accused by the UN of war crimes during the 22-day offensive in December 2008 and January 2009.<\/p>\n

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Mr Netanyahu said he regretted the Turkish prime minister’s comments.<\/p>\n

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“We are interested in good relations with Turkey and regret that Mr Erdogan chooses time after time to attack Israel,” he told reporters in Israel.<\/p>\n

The countries have been allies in the past.<\/p>\n

But earlier this week, the Turkish ambassador to Israel was recalled by Ankara, weeks after being humiliated in public by the Israeli deputy foreign minister.<\/p>\n

Ambassador Oguz Celikkol was called into the Israeli foreign ministry in January and rebuked over a Turkish television series that showed Israeli intelligence agents kidnapping children<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Mr Celikkol was made to sit on a low chair while being lectured by Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon.<\/p>\n

Mr Ayalon later apologised for the rebuke.<\/p>\n

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has compared Mr Erdogan to Presidents Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Libya’s leader Muammar Gaddafi.<\/p>\n

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