By Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Israel on Wednesday accused a senior Turkish official of "misusing" a Holocaust commemoration to criticize Israeli policy, the latest exchange in a bitter row between the former allies. Turkish Parliamentary Speaker Cemil Cicek late on Wednesday addressed members of Turkey's tiny Jewish community and others at a Holocaust memorial Day event and said rising anti-Semitism was linked to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. "As we remember the pain of the past, ** one can ig**re the last attacks on Gaza, in which 2,000 in**cent children, women were massacred. We need to see the picture as a whole," Cicek said, referring to Israel's war in July with Hamas-ruled Gaza.
01-30-2015, 03:12 PM
Israel says Turkish criticism inappropriate at Holocaust memorial service
By Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Israel on Wednesday accused a senior Turkish official of "misusing" a Holocaust commemoration to criticize Israeli policy, the latest exchange in a bitter row between the former allies. Turkish Parliamentary Speaker Cemil Cicek late on Wednesday addressed members of Turkey's tiny Jewish community and others at a Holocaust memorial Day event and said rising anti-Semitism was linked to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. "As we remember the pain of the past, ** one can ig**re the last attacks on Gaza, in which 2,000 in**cent children, women were massacred. We need to see the picture as a whole," Cicek said, referring to Israel's war in July with Hamas-ruled Gaza.
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