"I find it very sad that people applaud what you said," Erdogan said in Turkish. "You killed people.. Said Turkish PM to Israeli President The below report is almost what happened when Turkish PM left with anger back to his country the Dafos summit. S1000+ Turkish PM, Israeli president get into shouting match at economic forum UN launches $613M US Gaza appeal Last Updated:
Thursday, January 29, 2009 | 3:32 PM EThttp://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/01/29/un-gaza.html?ref=rss Turkey's prime minister stormed off the stage during a debate Thursday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, after getting into a shouting match with Israel's president over the fighting in the Gaza Strip. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, talks to Israeli President Shimon Peres during a plenary session at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland on Thursday. Erdogan later left the stage after verbally sparring over Gaza with Peres, and being cut off by the moderator. (Alessandro Della Bella/Associated Press) Recep Tayyip Erdogan grew increasingly irritated after appealing for more time from the moderator, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, to rebut Shimon Peres following the Israeli leader's passionate defence of his country's three-week offensive against Hamas militants. Ignatius gave Erdogan one extra minute because the session time was ending. "You kill people," Erdogan told the 85-year-old Israeli head of state. "I remember the children who died on beaches. I remember two former prime ministers who said they felt very happy when they were able to enter Palestine on tanks." "I find it very sad that people applaud what you said," Erdogan said in Turkish. "You killed people. And I think that it is very wrong." Ignatius interject, saying the panel couldn't "start the debate again." "We just don't have time," he said. "Please let me finish," Erdogan said, to which Ignatius responded: "We really do need to get people to dinner." The red-faced Turkish leader then said, "Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. I don't think I will come back to Davos after this." ======= S1000+ ======= --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World-thread" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/world-thread?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
