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Erdogan Urges Pressure on Israel | Europe | English

Erdogan Urges Pressure on Israel

David Gollust | United Nations

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Thursday blamed the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the impasse in Middle East peace talks and called for international pressure on the Jewish state. In U.N. General Assembly speeches, Erdogan and Cyprus President Demitris Christofias clashed over Cypriot plans for gas drilling in the Mediterranean.

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