Turkish PM condemns Libya US consulate attack, defends Islam
Posted Sep 14, 2012 5:55 am.
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YALTA, Ukraine – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has condemned the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya, saying it will harm Muslims around the world.
Four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, were killed at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi on Tuesday.
Erdogan said Friday that Islam as a religion “condemns terror acts that harm the innocent” and exhorted Muslim believers to condemn it.
But Erdogan also criticized a recent film that denigrated Islam and its prophet Muhammad and sparked protests earlier this week in Egypt, Libya and most recently in Yemen.
Erdogan told participants at an international conference in Ukraine that “insults to Islam’s noble values and to the Prophet cannot be assessed within freedom of thought and faith.”
