Turkey denounces ousting of Morsi, calls it ‘unacceptable’

I expected no less from Turkey than an objection:

HUFFINGTON POST – Turkey says the overthrow of Egypt’s Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi by the military is “unacceptable” and is calling for his release from house arrest.

Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Thursday democratically elected leaders should only be ousted through elections and said Morsi was deposed through illegal means.

Earlier, Turkey’s all-party parliamentary human rights commission also denounced Morsi’s ouster while small protests were held in Ankara and Istanbul.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Islamic-rooted government had formed an alliance with the Islamist leader.

Erdogan has curtailed the powers of Turkey’s own military which has carried out three coups since the 1960s.

I also expect that once Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood begins mounting a resistance to the overthrow, Turkey will send in Jihadi fighters on to fight Morsi’s behalf. But all that still remains to be seen.


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