Baku-APA. The United States condemned comments by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan accusing Israel of having a hand in the Egyptian military's overthrow of president Mohamed Mursi, a White House spokesman said on Tuesday, APA reports quoting Todays Zaman.
"We strongly condemn the statements that were made by Prime Minister ErdoÄŸan today. Suggesting that Israel is somehow responsible for recent events in Egypt is offensive, unsubstantiated, and wrong," White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters in a briefing.
Earlier on Tuesday, ErdoÄŸan told provincial leaders of his AK Party: "What do they say in Egypt? Democracy is not the ballot box. What is behind it? Israel. We have in our hands documentation."