Kerry to admonish Turkish PM Erdogan for "offensive" remark calling Zionism a crime against humanity

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: CBS News

A senior American official said Friday that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will take Turkey's prime minister to task for "particularly offensive" comments he made this week equating Zionism with a crime against humanity.

According to the official, Kerry felt the Turkish-Israeli relationship was currently "frozen."

CBS News correspondent Margaret Brennan reports that a U.S. official aboard Kerry's plane to Ankara said the comments could have a "corrosive effect" on U.S. relations with Turkey, and that Kerry intended to express his "dismay" to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan over his remark made during a United Nations summit in Vienna.

Erdogan's remarks were of significant concern, said the official, as in the past the Turkish-Israeli relationship had demonstrated that a majority Muslim country can have "very positive" relations with the Jewish state.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57572001/kerry-to-admonish-turkish-pm-erdogan-for-offensive-remark-calling-zionism-a-crime-against-humanity-official-says/

[marble falls]

1. Zionism has been deadly to thousands of Palestinian women and children who were never involved ....

in anti Zionist actions.

[Comrade Grumpy]

2. I would expect nothing else from a US secretary of state.

[Tempest]

3. Does he have a backup plan in case Erdogan tells him to go fuck himself?

Turkey needs the U.S. a whole lot less as an ally than the U.S. needs Turkey as one.

[leftynyc]

4. Have they given up hope

of joining the EU? I hadn't heard that. And really, you think we need them more? Nonsense.

[sulphurdunn]

5. Not only do our political

leaders kiss Israel's ass, they pay it $3 billion annually in tribute.