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Erdogan again compares Netanyahu to Hitler
January 19, 2024, 5:37 p.m
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Turkey is clearly positioning itself on the side of the people in Gaza. There are repeated hostilities and threats against Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet from Turkish politicians. President Erdogan even tries to make a direct comparison with the Nazi era.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has attacked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his actions in the Gaza war, making another Nazi comparison. “Today’s ‘leader’, Netanyahu, and his team are committing barbarities that amount to genocide,” Erdogan said while visiting a marine unit in the western Turkish province of Yalova.
The Turkish president expressly used the German term “Führer” when characterizing Netanyahu. Erdogan had already compared the Israeli Prime Minister to Adolf Hitler in December. “Is there anything Netanyahu did less than Hitler? No,” he said at the time.
Israel firmly rejected Erdogan’s statements. “His words are deeply offensive to every Jew around the world,” Israeli President Izchak Herzog said at the time. Erdogan also accused the West of remaining silent about Israel’s alleged crimes in the Gaza Strip and of standing idly by to the “brutal murder of children, babies and women.”