{"id":17183,"date":"2012-11-19T10:59:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T18:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=17183"},"modified":"2012-11-19T13:48:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T21:48:17","slug":"turkish-pm-calls-israel-a-terrorist-state-us-state-dept-refuses-to-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/19\/turkish-pm-calls-israel-a-terrorist-state-us-state-dept-refuses-to-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish PM Calls Israel a &#8216;Terrorist State,&#8217; US State Dept. Refuses to Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/sns-rt-us-palestinians-israel-turkeybre8ai0fh-20121119,0,5903987.story\">accused Israel of carrying out terrorism<\/a> in Gaza:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Those who associate Islam with terrorism close their eyes in the face of mass killing of Muslims, turn their heads from the massacre of children in Gaza,&#8221; Erdogan told a conference of the Eurasian Islamic Council in Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For this reason, I say that Israel is a terrorist state, and its acts are terrorist acts,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the State Department&#8217;s press briefing today,\u00a0AP reporter Matt Lee pressed for some response to this statement (I will post the video when it&#8217;s available):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F68044934&#038;show_artwork=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/07\/state-dept-were-not-consistent-on-human-rights-violations-in-middle-east\/\">here<\/a> for another of Matt Lee&#8217;s impressive berating of US propaganda and orthodoxy on Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan accused Israel of carrying out terrorism in Gaza: &#8220;Those who associate Islam with terrorism close their eyes in the face of mass killing of Muslims, turn their heads from the massacre of children in Gaza,&#8221; Erdogan told a conference of the Eurasian Islamic Council in Istanbul. &#8220;For this reason, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-17183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17183"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17190,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17183\/revisions\/17190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17183"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=17183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}