Tukeys president speech in Ankara on Thursday, Recep
Tayyip Erdogan said his country had recalled his ambassador from Bangladesh in
protest.
Turkey's
president strongly condemned the execution of Jamaat-i-Islami leader in Bangladesh.
Motiur
Rahman Nizami, the 73-year-old head of Bangladesh's largest Islamist party, was
executed early Wednesday for his role in acts of genocide and war crimes during
the country's independence war against Pakistan in 1971.
Erdogan
also lashed out at Europe for not speaking out against the execution.
“Weren't
you against executions?” Erdogan said. “There was no noise (from the EU)
because the person who was executed was a Muslim.”
Nizami
was convicted of three major charges stemming from the 1971 war, including the
killings of 480 people.
