Turkey: Erdogan Arouses Harsh Criticism by Equaling Fascism and Zionism

People ♦ Published: March 2, 2013; 19:58 ♦ (Vindobona)

At the UN conference in Vienna Turkeys Prime Minister obtained harsh criticism for his speech. The UN distanced itself from the statements.

Turkey: Erdogan Arouses Harsh Criticism by Equaling Fascism and Zionism / Picture: © Wikipedia / Randam

The UN conference in Vienna was actually about the promotion of interchanges between the peoples and religions. But the sheer opposite of the idea occurred. During his speech about the role of religions on Wednesday evening, Erdogan spoke about the Islam being a peaceful religion and religious wars like the one in Mali were wrong. Turkey's Prime Minister later mentioned Fascism,…