BEIJING, Nov. 20, according to foreign media reports, the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday, Israeli shelling of Gaza is a "terrorist state". This highlights Turkey's hostility to Israel since the rupture of relations between the two countries in 2010.
Last week Palestinian against Israeli rocket attacks, Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip.
Missiles fired at Israel on Sunday, causing at least 11 Palestinian civilians were killed.
Eurasian Islamic Council meeting held in Istanbul, Erdogan said, "to link Islam with terrorism, ignoring the mass killings of Muslims, ignoring the massacre of the children of Gaza."
"For this reason, I say that Israel is a terrorist country, their actions are acts of terrorism," he said.
Turkey has been Israel's only ally in the Muslim world, the 2010 Israeli warships attacked a rescue vessel to perform a naval blockade on the Gaza Strip, which led to the rupture of relations between the two countries. Israeli soldiers in the conflict of the activists on board, nine Turks were killed.
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