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ANKARA, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday called on Israel to stop its attacks on Gaza, which he said amounted to genocide, and urged the international community to work for a humanitarian ceasefire in the region.

In a post on social messaging platform X, Erdogan also said Israel was provoking non-regional actors instead of turning back from its mistakes in Gaza, adding that the region needed saving from the “frenzy of madness” supported by Western powers and media.

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[-] [email protected] 43 points 8 months ago
[-] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

I'll never understand why they insist on conflating the Ottoman Empire with Turkey.

Well, I understand, Erdogan would love to be the Caliph, but it's still ridiculous to feel like you have to defend the actions of an imperial state that was dissolved.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago
[-] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I think people are noting the similarities to the Armenian Genocide with the situation in Gaza. Namely, the forced displacement of millions of people for religious differences, which Turkey denies as a genocide because the Ottomans didn't set up death camps.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago

Turkey is okay with Hamas firing rockets at Israel though.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Of course. His radicalised base is generally pretty antisemitic.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Meanwhile he continues airstrikes against the Kurds in Northern Syria/Rojava, using the Gaza crisis as a distraction.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

A broken clock is right twice a day.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah.. as much as I hate his guts, on this one he's at least right. Now let's hope he stops bombing kurds.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Why would Israel stop while there are still hostages?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Maybe, just maybe, because literally thousands of innocent human beings are dying? I sometimes feel like I live in a different reality that this needs to be said.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I understand that, but how are Israel supposed to get their hostages back?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I honestly don't know, but just simply flattening all of Gaza can't be the way. Both from a humanitarian perspective (it can not be okay to murder thousands if not tens of thousand by the end of this to save a few), but also in practical sense. I'd even argue the chances of killing the hostages are huge like this, as long as they don't know where they are.

Imagine if these hostages were held on Israeli territory, they wouldn't just bomb the shit out of that, that would be considered absurd.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

If blood libel was true, would it have justified the Holocaust?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

He was also heard mumbling, Turks know it when they see it

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