Turkey keeps seeking international reaction against military coup in Egypt
Ankara condemns the military crackdown on Egyptian people which caused death of dozens, calling the event a 'massacre.’ Turkish officials also demand a UN reaction to those behind the coup
Turkey condemned today the Egyptian army’s firing on people during the dawn prayer in Cairo, killing dozens of people who demonstrated against last week’s military coup that unseated President Mohamed Morsi. Ankara described the incident as a “massacre,” while Turkish officials called on the U.N. to show a reaction to those behind the coup.
Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ, on social network site Twitter, wrote, “I strongly curse and condemn the massacre in Egypt, which took place during the early morning prayer.”
He asked whether military coup supporters still had a clear conscience about all those incidents.
In a bid seeking joint international reaction against the military coup in Egypt, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu held 12 phone conversations with his international counterparts, including EU term president Lithuania, Qatar, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Norway, Finland, Brazil, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton, Morocco and Sweden and planned to have more conversations during the evening, a Turkish diplomat told the Hürriyet Daily News.
“I strongly condemn the massacre during the morning prayers on behalf of the fundamental values of humanity that we have defended,” Davutoğlu wrote in a message on Twitter.
“Despite provocations, we expect from our Egyptian brothers to protect democracy and free will in dignity,” he added. The foreign minister urged the start of a political normalization process respecting the people’s will.
“Egypt is the hope for the rising demand for democracy in the Middle East and Turkey will always be in solidarity with the Egyptian people,” he said.
EU Minister Egemen Bağış said that the remarks of Ban Ki-moon over the incidents in Egypt were not enough. “Although I believe his discourse should be clearer, more consistent, more convincing and more conscientious, U.N. Security Council must get into action about Egypt as immediately as possible,” he noted.
Bağış also criticized the members of the U.N. Security Council of being irrelevant to others due to their own interests and the EU due to its stance on Egypt.
The chairman of the Turkish Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights, Ayhan Sefer Üstün, also voiced concern. “Organizations such as U.N. should immediately gather and show a serious and democratic reaction to those behind the coup” underlining that the Western world was also as responsible as those behind the coup in Egypt.
In a written statement, the Foreign Ministry also condemned the killing of more than 50 Egyptians. “The attack meant to violate not only freedom of expression and freedom of peaceful demonstrations but also a provocation which embitter the violence,” the ministry said.
July/08/2013
Iran says Egypt army intervention 'unacceptable'
Iran deems "unacceptable" the Egyptian army's toppling of the country's first freely elected president Mohamed Morsi, the foreign ministry said on Monday.
"The intervention of armed forces in political affairs is unacceptable and disturbing," ministry spokesman Abbas Araqchi told the Mehr news agency, when asked about the developments in Egypt.
"It cannot be denied that foreign hands are at work here," Araqchi said, adding: "The polarisation of Egyptian society is dangerous." He did not specify which foreign hands he believed were behind the coup but said: "The West and the Zionist (Israeli) regime do not want a strong Egypt." His remarks came after gunfire killed 42 Islamist protesters demonstrating outside an elite Cairo army base against last week's coup.
Iran had tried to improve its long strained relations with Egypt after Morsi, the candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood, took power in June last year.
Last August, Morsi became the first Egyptian leader to travel to Tehran since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution.
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