Turkish state officials on Saturday harshly condemned the Egyptian army opening fire at anti-coup protesters in Cairo's Rab'a Al-Adaweya Square, killing hundreds and wounding thousands on Friday.
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag urged the whole international community and all civilized people to take a certain stance against such an atrocity, on behalf of human rights and democracy and draw a line to the recent incidents in Egypt.
"Otherwise, it will be written down in history as a sign of the insincerity of the supporters of human rights, democracy and law, revealing that their will and word is comprised of just a simple statement," he said.
Speaking on the Egyptian army's attack on the anti-coup protesters late Friday, Turkish Development Minister Cevdet Yilmaz stated that "As Turkey and the Turkish people, we always took sides with Egypt and the Egyptian people and will always do so."
He congratulated the Egyptian people displaying their reaction against the military coup without involving any violence despite the army's attack on people and the following deaths.
"Our greatest concern is an escalating clashes, brothers killing each other and a weakening Egypt in return," Yilmaz underscored.
Turkish Health Minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu also condemned Friday's attack on the Egyptian people, describing it as a "massacre".
"The so-called supporters of human rights, democracy and law remain silent in the face of the slaughter of democracy as just an onlooker. May Allah help the Egyptian people. This is a real crime against democracy, humanity and law," he stressed.
Turkish Youth and Sports Minister Suat Kilic also condemned the attack, saying "May Allah not let the heads of state to become that much helpless to fire at their own people."
"These tyrannish dictators disregarding the will, right of life and democratic demands of the people will have their names written as the losers at the end of the day," he added.
Kilic also underlined the fallacy of the dictator paid by its own people's taxes to aim the guns towards his own people, bloodbathing the streets and squares.
"What has happened in Egypt is nothing like a massacre, it is a massacre to the full," he argued.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Political Chief Advisor Justice and Development (AK) Party Deputy Yalcin Akdogan decried the recent attack by the Egyptian army on its own people, stressing that "An administration regarding its own people as an enemy and doing a feckless massacre is unable and impossible to maintain the domestic peace and security."
"The political murder has turned into a killing of humanity. Those who support and applaud the military coup share the sin of the bloodshed," he said.
Akdogan also slammed the international community for a double standard attitude in the recent incident in Egypt.
"The false democrats who previously stirred up the world because of pepper gas now play the three monkeys on the massacre in Egypt. Ignoring the massacre of democracy in Egypt, the Western countries are silent in the face of the slaughter of civilian people, as shameful as the massacre itself," he added.
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