The head of Saadet (Felicity) Party, Numan Kurtulmus, criticized the Turkish representatives who attended the International Atomic Energy Agency meeting and abstained during the voting of the decision against Israel. Kurtulmus said that they were first political party to congratulate the Prime Minister after the ‘one minute’ incident but now the attitude of the government was ‘one minute the end’.

Kurtulmus stated that there were no decisions against Israel in the Atomic Energy Agency meetings in the past 17 years and it was unacceptable that the Turkish representatives abstained in such a decision.

Source: habervaktim (Turkey), September 22, 2009