ISRAEL BEHIND EGYPT COUP

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• Publication Date: August 20, 2013

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SUBJ: (U) ISRAEL BEHIND EGYPT COUP
SOURCE: Tehran Mehr News Agency in English 1115 GMT 20
Aug 13 (U)
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[Computer selected and disseminated without OSC editorial
intervention] Israel behind Egypt coup
TEHRAN, Aug.20 (MNA) 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
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
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[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.
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 death of eight Turks
and
one Turkish-American.
Erdogan accepted the apology and both sides agreed to carry out
further discussions. The Turkish 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, Haaretz daily reports.
[Description of Source: Tehran Mehr News Agency in English --
Conservative news agency, run by the Islamic Propagation Office,
and
affiliated with the conservative Qom seminary; in October 2010,
prominent long-time journalist Reza Moqaddasi, previously an
executive director of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, was
appointed to a four-year term as managing director; URL:
http://www.mehrnews.com]
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