ANKARA, July 8 (Xinhua) -- Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Monday condemned the incident outside a military facility in Cairo earlier in the day, in which at least 42 supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi were reportedly killed by the security forces, who said they were responding after being attacked.
Sources in Egypt told Xinhua that clashes occurred as Morsi's proponents demonstrated outside the headquarters of the Republican Guard in the Egyptian capital.
"I strongly condemn the massacre during the morning prayers in the name of basic human values that we have been defending," Davutoglu wrote on his Twitter account, Turkey's Hurriyet Daily News reported.
"We expect from our Egyptian brothers to protect democracy and free will in dignity," Davutoglu said, pledging Turkey's solidarity with the Egyptian people.
However, the Egyptian army said on state TV that one officer was killed and 40 wounded in the Monday "attack" by Morsi's supporters on the military facility.
"We managed to flee, after being attacked by Morsi's supporters with weapons," one of the soldiers said, adding that "they forced us to fire back under the threat of murder."
Morsi was ousted by the Egyptian army on Wednesday after millions of protesters demanded his removal due to his " maladministration" since he was elected a year ago. But supporters of the Islamist-oriented president condemned the move as conspiratory and vowed to sacrifice for Morsi's legitimacy.
Davutoglu, for his party, has said the ousting of Morsi was " unacceptable," branding the army's intervention as a "military coup," in contrast to the expression of the United States and some European countries, who refrained from using the word "coup."
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