Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is accusing the west of treating Iran unfairly over its nuclear program. In an interview with the London Guardian, Erdogan down-played western fears that Iran wants to build an atomic bomb as "gossip" and said a military strike against Iranian nuclear installations would be "crazy."

Notable quote: "On the one hand you say you want global peace, on the other hand you are going to have such a destructive approach to a state which has 10,000 years of history. It is not correct."