WashingtonFreeBeacon - Associated Press reporter Matt Lee pressed State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland at Monday's briefing to comment on Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's assertion that "Israel is a terrorist state" and is carrying out a "massacre of children" in Gaza.
Adhering to longstanding administration policy of never criticizing the Islamist regime in Turkey, she refused.
Admin. fails to condemn Turkey calling Israel 'a Terrorist State'
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