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Turkey's Erdogan reaffirms support for Palestine

Turkey cannot remain silent in the face of Israel's atrocities in Gaza, says PM Erdogan

22.07.2014 - Update : 22.07.2014
Turkey's Erdogan reaffirms support for Palestine

ANKARA, Turkey

Remaining silence in the face of Israel's atrocities in Gaza is not something that independent Turkey can do, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday.

“A completely independent country can never carry out a policy that encourages Israeli aggression," he told the MPs of his ruling Justice and Development Party at the national assembly.

He dismissed claims that Turkey was selling jet fuel and providing intelligence to Israel through NATO installations at Kurecik radar base in Turkey as " a plain lie and slander."

“People who claim this are ignorant because those NATO installations are for the defense of Turkey. Israel does not need any intelligence from us because it has its own means of intelligence,” Erdogan said.

Main opposition Republican Peoples Party's chairmain Kemal Kilicdaroglu recently claimed that Israel was buying jet fuel and receiving intelligence from Turkey.

Erdogan also criticized British Prime Minister David Cameron over his message of condolence for the Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza for overlooking hundreds of innocent Palestinians killed by the Israeli onslaught.

In a phone conversation with Israeli PM Netanyahu on Monday, Cameron expressed condolences for the deaths of Israeli troops, the Cabinet Office said in a statement.

Since July 7, Israel has been pounding the Gaza Strip, home to some 1.8 million Palestinians, with crippling air and naval bombardments with the ostensible aim of halting rocket fire

On Thursday night, Israel stepped up its offensive to include ground operations, sending thousands of troops into the embattled Palestinian territory.

The latest Palestinian fatalities figures reached 609 in Israeli air and naval bombardments since July 7, according to Palestinian health ministry.

160 children and 77 women are among the people slaughtered by the Israeli forces in the current onslaught.

Erdogan condoles Malaysian PM for MH17 crash deaths

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has extended his condolences to Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razzak for the crash of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine.

 In a phone conversation with Razzak, Erdogan offered his wholehearted condolences for those who lost their lives after the disaster, prime ministry sources said Tuesday.

The flight MH17 -- with 283 passengers and 15 crew members on board -- was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur before crashing Thursday in Donetsk, the Ukrainian city under control of pro-Russian separatists. 

It is believed that the plane was shot down by a surface-to-air missile, launched from an area controlled by Russian-backed separatists inside of Ukraine.

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