Turkey unsettled by "anti-Islamic" messages in US presidency race - minister
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Turkey is unsettled by "anti-Islamic" messages in the US presidential campaign, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday, citing the 2016 race for the White House that has seen the Republican front-runner advocate a ban on Muslim immigration.
Donald Trump, the businessman-turned-politician leading the polls ahead of the November 2016 election, last month said that all foreign Muslims should be temporarily prevented from entering the United States, a proposal he repeated in his first TV ad last week.
In November, Trump said he saw thousands of Muslims in New Jersey cheering the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York's World Trade Center, an assertion fact-checkers have not supported.
"It's election year in the US, we're disturbed by anti-Islamic remarks by some of the candidates," Cavusoglu told a conference of ambassadors in Ankara.
