Turkey urges UN meeting on crisis

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan today accused the West of ignoring bloodshed in Egypt and called on the United Nations Security Council to meet urgently to discuss the situation after hundreds of people were reported killed.

Mr Erdogan also said Egypt’s leaders should stand a “fair and transparent” trial for what he called a “massacre” that unfolded live on televisions as police smashed two protest camps of supporters of the deposed Islamist president.