{"id":9460,"date":"2013-08-20T18:03:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T18:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9460"},"modified":"2013-08-20T18:03:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T18:03:05","slug":"turkish-pm-israel-behind-egypt-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9460","title":{"rendered":"Turkish PM: Israel behind Egypt coup"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan claims Ankara has proof Israel was behind the July 3 military \u201ccoup\u201d that toppled Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, Turkish media report.<\/p>\n

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 \u201cthe people\u2019s will.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is what has been implemented in Egypt. Who is behind this? Israel. We have evidence<\/i>,\u201d Erdogan said, as quoted by the Hurriyet daily, during a meeting with provincial chairs of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).<\/p>\n

Erdogan spoke of a meeting between Turkey\u2019s justice minister and a \u201cJewish<\/i>\u201d intellectual in France before Egypt\u2019s 2011 elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Muslim Brotherhood will not be in power even if they win the elections. Because democracy is not the ballot box\u2019: This is what [the intellectual] said at that time,\u201d<\/i>\u00a0the PM continued.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The Israeli Foreign Ministry declined to respond to Erdogan\u2019s accusation.\u00a0\u201cThis is a statement well worth not commenting on,\u201d<\/i>\u00a0said ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The Turkish PM, an outspoken supporter of Morsi and his Islamist government,\u00a0lashed out\u00a0at the West for failing to act in light of last week\u2019s\u00a0bloody crackdown\u00a0against Muslim Brotherhood supporters. Having previously condemned the coup, Erdogan insisted that Morsi be reinstated through a democratic process.<\/p>\n

Erdogan\u2019s ruling AKP, which has Islamic roots, had developed ties with Egypt\u2019s Muslim Brotherhood and aimed to boost Turkey\u2019s regional clout by bolstering its relationship with the North African state. – RT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan claims Ankara has proof Israel was behind the July 3 military \u201ccoup\u201d 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 \u201cthe people\u2019s will.\u201d … Continue reading “Turkish PM: Israel behind Egypt coup”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[3699,930,190,178,1632],"class_list":["post-9460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-coup","tag-democracy","tag-egypt","tag-israel","tag-turkey"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/erdogan.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9462,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9460\/revisions\/9462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}