FILE PHOTO: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan addresses his supporters during a ceremony marking the second anniversary of the attempted coup at the Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey July 15, 2018. REUTERS/Murad Sezer
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey accused Israel on Thursday of trying to form "an apartheid state", and denounced as racist a new law declaring that only Jews have the right of self-determination in the country.
A spokesman for President Tayyip Erdogan called on the international community "to react to this injustice happening in front of the entire world's eyes" after the Israeli Knesset passed the "nation-state" law on Thursday, angering members of the country's Arab minority.
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