'ISRAEL BEHIND EGYPT COUP' - TURKISH PM

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SUBJ: (U) 'ISRAEL BEHIND EGYPT COUP' - TURKISH PM
SOURCE: Amman Ammun News in English 0550 GMT 21 Aug 13
Jordan News (U)
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(Ammun News) - [8/21/2013 8:39:13 AM]
MOSCOW (Russia Today) - 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
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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.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry declined to respond to Erdogan's
accusation. "This is a statement well worth not commenting on,"
said
ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor.
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 deaths of eight Turks
and one Turkish-American.
Erdogan accepted the apology and both sides agreed to carry out
further discussions. The 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.
The Turkish PM, an outspoken supporter of Morsi and his Islamist
government, lashed out at the West for failing to act in light of
last week's bloody crackdown against Muslim Brotherhood supporters.
Having previously condemned the coup, Erdogan insisted that Morsi
be
reinstated through a democratic process.
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Erdogan's ruling AKP, which has Islamic roots, had developed ties
with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and aimed to boost Turkey's
regional
clout by bolstering its relationship with the North African state.
The Egyptian interim presidency, however, denounced Erdogan's
remarks. Presidential spokesperson Ahmed Muslimany said that
"agents
of the West should not give lessons in patriotism." [Description of
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