Turkish minister says lessons weren’t learned from Srebrenica genocide
Turkey’s Head of Communications, Fahrettin Altun, says if the world had learned from the Srebrenica genocide, Israel’s war on Gaza would not be happening.
“Ratko Mladić, etched in history as the “Butcher of Bosnia,” like those who perpetuate the genocide in Gaza today, was tragically blinded by ideology and ignored the pleas of reason, common sense, and conscience,” Altun wrote on X.
“If humanity had truly learned from the harrowing events in Srebrenica, where over 8,000 people were killed solely because of their identities and beliefs without making any distinction between the young and the old, the genocide in Gaza would not have taken place today.”
During the Srebrenica genocide, about 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys were killed in 1995 by Bosnian Serb forces.
In May, the UN approved a resolution marking July 11 as the International Day of Remembrance of the Srebrenica Genocide.
Biden complicit in Israeli ‘war crimes’: Turkey’s Erdogan
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says US President Joe Biden and his administration are complicit in Israeli “war crimes” and violations of international law in Gaza.
In an interview with Newsweek during the NATO summit in Washington, DC, Erdogan highlighted Israel’s “brutal murder” of civilians and its strikes on hospitals, aid centres and elsewhere.
“The US administration, however, disregards these violations and provides Israel with the most support. They do so at the expense of being complicit in these violations,” Erdogan said.
“At this juncture, who will impose what kind of sanction against Israel for violating international law? That is the real question and no one is answering that.”
Israel has consistently rejected accusations it breached international law and denied deliberately targeting civilians. Turkey has repeatedly condemned Israel’s assault on Gaza, criticised Western countries for backing Israel and called for Israel to be punished by international courts.
