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Countries attacking Islam want to relaunch Crusades: Erdogan

Countries attacking Islam want to relaunch Crusades: Erdogan

By Reuters

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, delivers a speech at supporters in Istanbul, on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018. Photo: AP

ANKARA: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Western countries attacking Islam want to 'relaunch the Crusades' as a row flared between Turkey and France about cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. Erdogan said in a speech to lawmakers from his AK Party in parliament that standing against attacks on the Prophet Mohammad was 'an issue of honour for us'.