Erdogan calls Netanyahu ‘terrorist’

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is accusing Netanyahu of being “a terrorist” after the prime minister rejected Ankara’s “moral lessons” over deadly clashes in Gaza.

“Hey Netanyahu! You are occupier. And it is as an occupier that are you are on those lands. At the same time, you are a terrorist,” Erdogan says in a televised speech in Adana, southern Turkey.

Netanyahu earlier Sunday lashed out at Turkey in response to its president’s claim that Israel mounted an “inhumane attack” on Palestinians during Friday’s mass protests on the border with Israel.

“The most moral army in the world will not accept moral preaching from someone who for years has been bombing a civilian population indiscriminately,” he said, in apparent reference to Ankara’s ongoing battle against the Kurds.

— with AFP