08/04/2010 11:50
Israel is the main threat to peace in Middle East, says Erdogan
During a visit to Paris, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan described Israel “the main threat to peace in the Middle East.”
"It is Israel which is the main threat to regional peace," Erdogan told journalists before a working lunch with French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday.
Turkish Prime Minister also referred to the issue of sanctions against Iran, pointing that he doesn’t consider the discussed sanctions to be effective. He told French daily Le Figaro in an interview, published ahead of his visit: “Sanctions have already been agreed on two occasions.”
“Those who took the decision to apply them were the first to violate them," he added, keeping in view France, Germany, Britain, U.S., and Chine.