Zionism a 'crime against humanity'

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan came under withering criticism from Israel, Washington and the United Nations for comments branding Zionism a "crime against humanity".
The storm surrounding the comments is likely to dominate Friday's visit to Ankara by the new US Secretary of State John Kerry, who is due to hold talks there on the Syrian crisis.
Erdogan has often attacked Israeli policies in blistering language over recent years, sending relations between the once close allies into free-fall.
On Wednesday, he told a forum organised by the UN in Vienna that: "As is the case for Zionism, anti-Semitism and fascism, it is inevitable that Islamophobia be considered a crime against humanity."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the comments as "a dark and mendacious statement, the likes of which we thought had passed from the world". Washington said the "characterisation of Zionism as a crime against humanity... is offensive and wrong".
Ties between Ankara and Israel reached a low point after Israeli commandos raided a Gaza-bound Turkish aid flotilla in the Mediterranean in May 2010, killing nine Turks on board.