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Israel Slams "Outrageous" Erdogan Remarks
(AFP) In a weekend interview with CNN, Turkish premier Erdogan claimed that the number of Israelis killed in the conflict with the Palestinians was up to "200," while "hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were killed." Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday described these remarks as "outrageous," noting that thousands of Israelis had been killed in Palestinian violence and that Israel had certainly not taken the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.