I am not a fan of what Israel is doing in Gaza (and I think it is political on the part of the ruling Likud to stoke up the war fears before an election) but it is absud (from my perspective) for Turkey to act as some sort of righteous entity when they deny the genocide the happened by the Turks the end of the Ottoman period and support the ethnic cleansing in Turkish occupied northern Cyprus and denial of ethnic rights to their minorities.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323353204578128880612421650.html

November 19, 2012, 10:48 a.m. ET

Turkey’s Erdogan Labels Israel a ‘Terrorist State’

ISTANBUL—Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Israel of being a “terrorist state” on Monday and criticized world powers for supporting the weeklong bombardment of Gaza that has killed almost 90 people, signaling that the three-year-old rift between Jerusalem and Ankara is deepening.

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