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Eliot Engel: “I particularly was galled at Prime Minister Erdogan's calling Israel a terrorist state given Turkey's need to respond to…”

On the recordNovember 28, 2012
I particularly was galled at Prime Minister Erdogan's calling Israel a terrorist state given Turkey's need to respond to the PKK.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Engel condemns Erdogan's labeling of Israel while Turkey combats its own terrorism issues.

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