The expected US move to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel risks igniting a "fire" in the Middle East and will prove a "great disaster", the Turkish government said on Wednesday.

The recognition will "throw the region and the world into a fire and it's not known when it will end", Deputy Prime Minister and government spokesman Bekir Bozdag wrote on Twitter, saying the move was a "great disaster" that would lead the way to "turmoil, chaos and clashes