Turkey: Ankara Mayor Blames Paris Terror on Israel

The openly anti-Semitic mayor of Ankara, the capital of Turkey, has engaged in another ugly tirade against Jews, blaming the Israeli intelligence service Mossad for last week’s deadly terrorist attacks in France.

Ibrahim Melih Gökçek, a member of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party, told a youth congress on Sunday that Israel was angry with France for having voted in favor of Palestinian statehood resolution at a United Nations Security Council meeting last month.

“Israel certainly doesn’t want this sentiment to expand in Europe. That’s why it is certain that Mossad is behind these kinds of incidents. Mossad inflames Islamophobia by causing such incidents,” Gökçek said, according a report in the Turkish newspaper Zaman.

“Palestine being recognized as a state is why these [attacks] have taken place,” the mayor concluded.

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