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Turkey blasts Israel for 'genocide'
London | Reuters | 05/04/2002
Turkey's prime minister accused military ally Israel yesterday of "genocide" against
Palestinians and demonstrators marched in Muslim and other countries as Israel
vowed to pursue its drive to root out suicide bombers.
With shooting reported around the traditional birthplace of Jesus in Bethlehem, Pope
John Paul called for a world day of prayer on Sunday for peace in the Middle East "to
change the hearts of even the most obstinate men".
There was growing criticism of the United States for not doing enough to halt the
violence. But most of the protests were directed at Israel, and some of them worried
governments.
"The whole of the Palestinian state is being destroyed step by step," Turkish Prime
Minister Bulent Ecevit told party members in parliament. "A genocide against the
Palestinian people is being carried out before the eyes of the world."
But Ecevit blamed both Israel and Palestinian radicals for the violence and urged
both sides to resume peace talks, offering Turkey as a possible venue for Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to meet Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.
Muslim Turkey and Israel cooperate in a range of security areas and, only last
month, Turkey signed a deal for an Israeli state defence firm to upgrade ageing
Turkish M-60 tanks.
But public protests against Israeli military action in the West Bank have grown in
Turkey, and thousands of Turks took to the streets yesterday for the third day
running.
About 2,500 people led by unions and civic groups gathered amid a heavy police
presence in central Ankara, shouting "Damn Israel" and "Murderer Israel", witnesses
said.
In Lebanon, tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets to denounce Israel's
raids on Palestinian towns and its siege of Arafat at his headquarters in Ramallah.
Some 20,000 demonstrators marched through the main streets in the southern port
city of Sidon, many carrying pictures of Arafat. "Sharon you pig," chanted the
protesters, who also burned Israel's flag.
Thousands more Lebanese and Palestinians from nearby refugee camps filled the
streets of the northern city of Tripoli. In central Beirut a group of leftist students
began the sixth day of a sit-in in solidarity with Palestinians.
In Jakarta, some 2,000 Indonesians hit the streets calling for an end to Israeli
military
action, in the third consecutive day of protests in the world's most populous Muslim
nation.
Thousands of protesters gathered outside the office of the United Nations in central
Jakarta shouting slogans in support of the Palestinians.
Outside the Muslim world, around 100 people demonstrated peacefully against Israel
in the Swiss capital Berne. Police stopped about 25 who tried to approach the Israeli
embassy.
But Saudi Arabia, home to Islam's holiest shrines, reminded its people of a ban on
public demonstrations after an impromptu protest by 150 angry citizens in support of
the Palestinians, the Saudi Press Agency said.
The Moroccan government granted schoolchildren early spring holidays in a bid to
prevent possible violent pro-Palestinian street protests, a government official said.
In the Vatican, the Pope said he hoped prayers on Sunday would reach out "to those
who have the responsibility and power to take the necessary steps...to lead the
opposing parties towards an agreement that is just and dignified for all".
The 81-year-old Pontiff urged Christians across the world to send a "message of
stable and lasting peace".
But Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa said yesterday contacts with
Israel's government had proved "useless" in restraining Israeli actions.
"We are all convinced that Sharon is bound to do what he wants to do, because he
believes he's above the law and he is protected by other powers," Moussa told CNN
in an interview.
Even former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright suggested Washington was
not doing enough and, appearing on NBC's Today show, urged her successor Colin
Powell to travel immediately to the region.
"The bottom line is that the United States is the only power that will be listened to
by
both sides, and I think it's just so important for us not to be engaged just from the
sidelines but really in there pushing a political track along with a military one,"
Albright said.
Finnish President Tarja Halonen said in Helsinki: "What the United States should say
clearly is that it is of the same opinion as all the rest of us - that this must stop,
and
that there will be damaging consequences for everyone if it does not stop."
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