Israel’s prime minister has angrily rebuffed comments by the Turkish president who called Israel the “most fascist, racist state” in the world.

Benjamin Netanyahu accused Recep Tayyip Erdogan of “massacring Syrian and Kurds”, after Mr Erdogan compared Israeli political leaders to Hitler.

Mr Netanyahu tweeted that under Mr Erdogan’s rule, Turkey had become a “dark dictatorship”.

The two countries have a recent