Turkish PM and WEF president's joint presser

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and the chairman of World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab held a press conference in Davos.

SCHWAB:
- What is more important is I have to pay tribute his role in the Middle East peace process. This role gives us hope.

- I am very sorry and deeply concerned.

- We always wanted to protect the Davos spirit which based on mutual understanding.

- I hope we move forward on the points we agree on today's session.

ERDOGAN:
- I have expressed our position with respect to and in favor of international peace and cooperation.

- Within this context we had made comments on Middle East issues.

- I shared my observations and assessments with respect to human tragedy experince in Gaza in accordance with the spirit placed in Davos

- During my remarks I specificaly underlined the message of peace.

- I did not target at all in any way the Israeli people, President Peres or Jewish people.

- To the contrary both during the panel I attended in lunch and tonight, I specificaly stressed that anti-Semitism is a crime against humanity.

- In the panel in the evening Ban ki-Moon spoke fore 15 minutes, I spoke for 12 minutes and Mr. Amr Moussa cut his speech short when it reached to 12 minutes.

- On the other hand President Peres spoke for 25 minutes and during the speech he turned and speak at me at a manner that we don't see in Davos.

- And president Peres raised his voice time to time.

- When I intervened to take the floor the moderator did not allow me to do. And I showed reaction to the moderator and left the meeting.

- I wanted to express these thoughts so that there would be no misunderstanding.

- We will talk about this with Mr. Schwab. My reaction here was towards the moderator. Such moderation will cast a shadow over peace efforts.

- I have respect for Mr. Peres therefore I did not raise my voice. Otherwise I would have raised my voice. He doesn't speak truth. History and political science deny him.