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Erdoğan blames Egypt 'tyrants' for demise of ex-president Morsi

"History will never forget those tyrants who led to his death by putting him in jail and threatening him with execution," Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, a close ally of Morsi, said in a televised speech in Istanbul on Monday.

AFP WORLD
Published June 17,2019
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday blamed Egypt's "tyrants" for the death of former Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi, who died in a Cairo hospital after fainting during a court session.

"History will never forget those tyrants who led to his death by putting him in jail and threatening him with execution," Erdoğan, a close ally of Morsi, said in a televised speech in Istanbul.