Turkey on 14 August called on the UN Security Council and Arab League to take immediate steps to stop a “massacre” in Egypt, saying international silence had paved the way for the Egyptian authorities’ violent crackdown.“The international community, especially the UN Security Council and Arab League, must act immediately to stop this massacre,” Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s office said in a statement.“It’s clearly seen that the international community’s support for the military coup and its silence to previous massacres… has encouraged the current administration for today’s intervention,” Erdogan’s office said. “An armed intervention against civilian people who stage protests is unacceptable, regardless of its justification,” President Abdullah Gul also said in televised remarks. “I’m afraid Egypt is heading into inextricable chaos, ” he warned.
The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which rules Gaza, also condemned the crackdown as a “terrible massacre.”“Hamas condemns the terrible massacre in Nahda square and at Rabaa Al-Adawiyya, and we call for an end to the bloodshed and to excesses against peaceful demonstrators,” its spokesman Sami Abu Zuhriwas reported as saying.