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Israel slams Turkey over Ahmadinejad plan to visit
By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent

Israel has officially protested against the planned visit of Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Turkey next week.

Israel's ambassador to Turkey, Gabi Levy, presented the protest to officials in Ankara, and the Turkish ambassador to Israel was summoned to Jerusalem.

"Israel is disappointed that Turkey has invited for an official visit a leader who denies publicly the Holocaust, and thus grants him legitimacy," was the message given to the Turkish ambassador to relay to his government.
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Iran's president has sought an official invitation to Turkey for four years, but every time such a visit was scheduled, it was postponed.

In recent months ties between Ankara and Tehran grew closer as Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan attempted to play mediator between the Iranian regime and the United States.

Erdogan offered the Americans indirect negotiations with Iran in Turkey, along a model similar to the Turkish mediation between Israel and Syria.

Ahmadinejad's planned visit also drew severe criticism in Turkey because of the Iranian president's criticism of the founder of modern Turkey, Kemal Ataturk. As a way of containing the furor, Ankara downgraded the visit from "official state visit" to "working visit."

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      1.   They have a lot in common 02:19  |  Pepe 08/08/08
      2.   #1 Pepe 02:26  |  Murray the Mongoose 08/08/08
      3.   Israeli Reaction? 02:32  |  MichaelF 08/08/08
      4.   You see this in Russia, Venesula, Lebanon, Now coming to Turkey 02:57  |  George 08/08/08
      5.   Turkey could not care less what Israel thinks 03:05  |  Wendy 08/08/08
      6.   For heaven`s sake,drop the old canards about Dr.A ! 03:20  |  lakshmi 08/08/08
      7.   Not surprising at all 03:42  |  Brod 08/08/08
      8.   they are not different 03:43  |  haha 08/08/08
      9.   Not only he is visiting but worse.... 03:48  |  david Israel 08/08/08
      10.   Ahmadinejad denied the Holocaust? 03:53  |  BBSNews 08/08/08
      11.   IT SHOULD BE OBVIOUS TO EVERYONE BY NOW THAT ISRAEL 03:59  |  BigBadJohn 08/08/08
      12.   Turkey doesn`t care about israeli protest 04:21  |  Aounist 08/08/08
      13.   BigBadJohn in Nashville 04:28  |  David Israel 08/08/08
      14.   Ahmadinejad in Turkey 04:47  |  Michael 08/08/08
      15.   Neithe,r nor 04:50  |  Radovan 08/08/08
      16.   #9 You mean Kemal Ataturk 05:07  |  Benham 08/08/08
      17.   BIGBADTOILET 05:19  |  J 08/08/08
      18.   Ottoman Empire is dead...Thank God! 05:34  |  Pastor Joseph 08/08/08
      19.   time Israel accepts Armenian genocide commited by Turks 05:48  |  Viken 08/08/08
      20.   Israel has little regard for world opinion 06:09  |  Natallie Durson 08/08/08
      21.   Abbba also denies holocaust 06:27  |  Avi 08/08/08
      22.   Benham - please read you rown Lord Kinross 06:29  |  David Israel 08/08/08
      23.   Oh boy, stop the weep! 07:56  |  Niva dos Santos 08/08/08
      24.   Turkish mediation 08:02  |  ron 08/08/08
      25.   Hamas and Hizbullah are glorified in Turkey. 08:30  |  Jean Van Daem 08/08/08
      26.   Is Israel afraid that reason and moderation will prevail? 08:51  |  Ivar 08/08/08
      27.   Israel slams Turkey 09:17  |  AMERICAN 08/08/08
      28.   big for its briges 09:20  |  jj 08/08/08
      29.   Do They Have Toilets Short Enough For Him? 09:23  |  Yosemite 08/08/08
      30.   Israel Can Slam Away, But its Opinion is Insignificant 09:34  |  Johan Odin 08/08/08
      31.   Will the whining and bleating from Israel NEVER stop? 10:44  |  Clickfool 08/08/08
      32.   EU PROCESS IS ISLAMIZING TURKEY, NOT REFORMING IT! 11:27  |  Secular Turk 08/08/08
      33.   No more a holocast denier than Abbas 11:28  |  Ilan 08/08/08
      34.   watch it israel.... 11:34  |  ravi 08/08/08
      35.   #1 Pepe 11:45  |  Imad 08/08/08
      36.   Natalie Durson ne Rett Butler or is it Lana Turner? 11:49  |  H 08/08/08
      37.   Ahmadinejad plan to visit 12:07  |  Ralph 08/08/08
      38.   Israel`s got a nerve 12:15  |  Forever Palestinian 08/08/08
      39.   Israel the Sucker 12:21  |  Steven 08/08/08
      40.   Secular Turk, nothing to add to your post and 13:45  |  Jew- and Bookburner 08/08/08
      41.   Secular Turk: Is Attaturk above the will of the Turkish people? 14:26  |  Free Turk 08/08/08
      42.   To Secular Turk: leave Islam and Turkish nationalism, and we 14:37  |  Italian 08/08/08
      43.   Im sure Turkey is Opening Negotiations 14:40  |  Ronnie Wolman 08/08/08
      44.   Turkey boycott 14:44  |  Albert Einstein 08/08/08
      45.   Wendy - Turkey seemed to care when then Kenneset was dicussing 14:53  |  J 08/08/08
      46.   Israel is shooting its own foot ! 14:57  |  Mike the American 08/08/08
      47.   #32 Secular Turk....belonging to the Eu is way 15:11  |  Lynn 08/08/08
      48.   Nat + Click 15:14  |  Zuleida Arabic woman 08/08/08
      49.   Wrong reasoning 15:20  |  Tosefta 08/08/08
      50.   ISRAEL IS NOTHING BUT TROUBLE 15:22  |  indrajaya 08/08/08
      51.   For the alleged "Zuleida Arabic Woman" # 40 15:42  |  Clickfool 08/08/08
      52.   Secular Turk - I hope not 15:53  |  David Israel 08/08/08
      53.   Palestinian Forever 16:02  |  Jane 08/08/08
      54.   Forever Palesitian 16:15  |  Jane 08/08/08
      55.   HEROSTRATUS AGAIN IN TURKEY? 16:24  |  Iskander 08/08/08
      56.   #11 "big-bad-john`! 16:33  |  John Allen 08/08/08
      57.   nice to see they graduated from words to slams 16:39  |  nuchem 08/08/08
      58.   Response to Secular Turk 16:45  |  Mark B. 08/08/08
      59.   #31 clickfool, your still running around? 16:45  |  John Allen 08/08/08
      60.   Forever Israel 16:46  |  Dr Noam 08/08/08
      61.   I thought they screen out deseased people ! 16:46  |  jewish doctor 08/08/08
      62.   36 Forever Palestinian,you have a point! 16:48  |  lakshmi 08/08/08
      63.   "Israeli diplomacy" 16:48  |  Mark B. 08/08/08
      64.   #40 muslim woman. 16:55  |  John Allen 08/08/08
      65.   @39 Lynn, I suggest you put your energy in the ongoing downfall 17:05