Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s statement at a United Nations gathering last week has caused World Jewish Congress (WJC) Secretary General Maram Stern to cancel his planned participation in an event this week in Berlin, which is to be addressed by Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arinc, the European Jewish Press (EJP) reported.

Last Thursday Erdogan, compared Zionism with fascism in a public address at the opening session of the fifth UN Alliance of Civilizations.