Iran Press/ Asia: German leaders host Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for talks Friday, in a highly controversial visit made more explosive by Erdogan's branding of Israel as a "terror state".
Turkish-German relations have reached a low point. War in the Middle East is the chief cause, given the countries' divergent views on the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has resorted to harsh rhetoric criticizing Israel and defending Hamas, which Turkey's Western allies like Germany consider a terrorist organization.
For 75 years, Israel has been trying to "establish a state on land that was stolen from the Palestinian people," Erdogan said recently in Ankara. Israel's legitimacy is being called into question by its "own fascism," he added. 219
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