Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday accused US diplomats of spreading "gossip" and "slander" after leaked State Department cables alleged corruption in his government and portrayed him as an Islamist, Reuters reports.
The website WikiLeaks this week began posting hundreds of thousands of confidential diplomatic messages, including some that show a complex, difficult relationship between the United States and Turkey, the only Muslim member of NATO.
"The unserious cables of American diplomats, formed from gossip, magazines, allegations and slander, are spreading worldwide via the Internet," Erdogan said in comments broadcast live by the NTV news channel.
Turkish premier accuses the USA
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