Ankara (AFP) - Turkish Prime
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday stepped up his rhetoric against
Israel over its deadly air offensive on Gaza, accusing the Jewish state
of committing "state terrorism" against the Palestinians.
Presenting
himself as the sole world leader speaking up for the Palestinians,
Erdogan said that any normalisation in the troubled ties between Israel
and Ankara was currently out of the question.
"Israel
is continuing to carry out state terrorism in the region. Nobody,
except us, tells it to stop," Erdogan told members of his ruling party
in parliament, accusing Israel of perpetrating a "massacre" of
Palestinians.
"To what extent will the world remain silent to this state terrorism?"
