Turkey's prime minister today lashed out at the international response to the escalating crisis in Egypt, saying organisations including the UN and EU should be ashamed of their inaction.
"Let me say very clearly, the United Nations Security Council no longer has the right to look at itself in the mirror, it's so ashamed, because it couldn't condemn what's happening in Egypt," said Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
"The same goes for the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and the European Union," added the premier, who had cultivated close ties with Egypt's ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi.
"Those who stay mute in the face of the latest developments in Egypt are approving the massacres by their silence and sinking in the blood that's flowing in the country."
Egypt has seen four days of bloodshed since Wednesday, when around 600 people were killed in clashes as police broke up protest camps of Morsi supporters.
The government today said that 173 people had died in the past 24 hours alone.
