Turkish PM Storms Out of Gaza Debate at Davos

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/01/29/Gaza_The_Case_for_Middle_East_Peace

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan reacts to comments from Israeli President Shimon Peres on Israel's military actions in Gaza. After implicating Israel in the killing of children, Erdogen walks out, promising not to return to Davos.

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Recep Tayyip Erdogan has served as the Prime Minister of Turkey since March 14, 2003. He is the chairman of the Justice and Development Party.

Erdogan was born in Istanbul. His family has descended from Adjara Georgian immigrants who settled from Batumi to Rize. Erdgan spent his early childhood in Rize where his family had settled, before returning to Istanbul at the age of 13. After graduating from a religious high school Imam Hatip school he studied management at Marmara University's Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. Erdogan played semi-professional football in a local neighborhood club for 16 years.

He married Emine Erdogan on 4 July 1978 and they have two sons (Ahmet Burak, Necmeddin Bilal) and two daughters (Esra, Sumeyye).

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[amatuerarabist]

Erdogan lecturing someone else on humanitarianism? This is rich. The man who threatened to expel all remaining Armenians from Turkey if anyone mentioned the last Turkish genocide of Armenians is a humanitarian now. Who knew?

[Melbturk28]

the worst translater in the world didnt translate at all

[GalatasaraySK63]

@amatuerarabist expeling people from a country and killing innocent people that are trying to help falsely imprisoned opressed innocent people are two completely different things that cant be compared and if a turkish person were to talk about what armenians did to turkish diplomats and other politicians they would straight away be imprisoned or deported

[Rader55]

Now that's a hypocrite

[esraretin]

@Hereticalable yes i was jerking rigth now

[Hereticalable]

@esraretin You're babbling now aren't you?

[esraretin]

@Hereticalable wow u got one thump dick from me for this comment

[Hereticalable]

@esraretin With all due respect please learn to press the caps lock key more than once...

[esraretin]

I CALL ALL TURKS THAT DONT DEFENDE URSELF JUST SAY YES WE DID!

[esraretin]

@Hereticalable yes occupied land come and take ! yes WE ADMIT ALL OF THEM WE KILLED GREEKS,ARMENIANS,KURDS BUT AS U SAID THIS IS THE WAY WE ARE :EVEN OUR KURD PRESIDENT ''TURGUT OZAL''WAS A RACIST AGAINST KURDS MAN.YES WE ARE BARBARIANS SO SHUT UP WE KILLED HALF OF WORLD POPULATION.DO FURTHER RESEARCH WE WERE THE PEOPLE BEYOND THE WW1,WW2 HIROSHIMA,NAGASAKI,VIETNAM,IND­IAn GENOCIDE,JEW GENOCIDE.IF WE FIND OPPORTTUNITY WE PLAN TO KILL MORE AS POSSIBLE.WE ARE NATURAL BORN KILLERS

[UncleFourFinger]

Turkey, Israel, Nazi-Germany.

What's the difference?

[Hereticalable]

@amatuerarabist Don't mention the 30,000 dead Kurds in the last 20 years whatever you do. Or the fact that it's not been than long since Kurds could legally give their children Kurdish names in Turkey...meanwhile in Israel and the occupied territories Arabs call their children Arab names without fuss or hindrance. I won't even start on Cyprus....the Turks are sick bastards whose whole country is occupied Anatolia.