A Turkish politician has attacked Sarah Jessica Parker in a newspaper op-ed, accusing her of being a “fierce Israeli advocate”.

The Sex and the City actress was one of a number of targets in the article by Aydın Ünal, an MP in Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s AK Party, who also took swipes at trade unions and the Gilets Jaunes protests in France.

Ms Parker angered pro-Erdoğan figures this week when she was pictured in New York City clutching an advance English-language copy of Dawn, a book by Selahattin Demirtas, a Kurdish politician imprisoned in Turkey.

It was later revealed that the book will be published in April by Hogarth, the publishing division within Penguin Random House which Ms Parker launched two years ago.

In his column, Mr Ünal attacked the actress' Jewish connections, saying “her father and her husband are Jewish”, calling her a “fierce Israeli advocate”.

Her father, Stephen Parker, was born to an Ashkenazi family in New York, and her husband, Matthew Broderick, was born to a Jewish mother.

While Ms Parker does not often speak about Israel or Zionism, in the early 1990s she appeared in Shalom Sesame, a Sesame Street spinoff about Israel and Judaism.

Dawn, a collection of short stories which “capture the voices of ordinary people living through extraordinary times”, was written by Mr Demirtas behind bars.

The former leader of the left-wing and pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party, he has been detained in Turkey since November 2016, after he was accused of “leading an armed terrorist organisation”, as well as co-ordinating unlawful demonstrations.

Mr Demirtas stood to be President of Turkey from his jail cell and came third. The European Court of Human Rights has since ordered Turkey to release him.

Mr Ünal’s comments come after another ally of Erdoğan’s, Burhan Kuzu, blamed “Jewish-originated Zionist bankers” for a currency crisis which saw the lira plummet in value against the US dollar.