Turkey compares Netanyahu to Hitler as tensions rise
More on the war of words between Israel and Turkey.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying “just as the end of the genocidal Hitler came, so too will be the end of the genocidal Netanyahu,” according to the official Anadolu Agency.
“Just as the genocidal Nazis were held accountable, those who seek to destroy the Palestinians will also be held accountable,” the statement continued. “Humanity will stand with the Palestinians. You will not be able to destroy the Palestinians,” it added.
The statement came after Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz responded to remarks by the Turkish president in which he suggested Turkey should enter Israel to help the Palestinians. Katz said, “Erdogan was following in the footsteps of Saddam Hussein […] Just let him remember what happened there and how it ended.”
I would compare Netanyahu to Saddam Hussein and his prosecution of the Kurds "The al-Anfal military campaign against Kurdistan in Northern Iraq between 1986 and 1989 is qualified by some European countries as genocide. 182 000 Kurds were estimated to have been deported, killed, disappeared in depopulation campaigns in Kurdish areas carried out by Baath party."
Of course that's a sore point for Turkey as they have been oppressing the Kurds as well with a long dark history of atrocities.
https://dckurd.org/2023/03/23/dark-year-for-kurds-in-turkey/
https://www.cfr.org/timeline/kurds-long-struggle-statelessness
https://kurdistantribune.com/the-massacres-and-oppression-of-the-kurds-in-20th-century-turkey/
I guess it takes one to know one... Another struggle that's been ongoing for over a century.
Erdogan is ‘voice of humanity’s conscience’, says Turkish foreign minister
Hakan Fidan has taken to X to defend Erdogan as a war of words with Israel escalates.
“Our President has become the voice of humanity’s conscience,” Fidan wrote. “Those who seek to silence this just voice, especially international Zionist circles including Israel, are in a state of great panic. History has ended the same way for all genocidal perpetrators and their supporters.”
The statement came after Fidan’s Israeli counterpart attacked Erdogan on X after the Turkish president said his country could intervene in Israel’s war on Gaza.
If the Palestinians actually get a state, the Kurds would no doubt like to follow. So in a way, Turkey is putting pressure on themselves as well. Although in long term vision, the Kurdistan region in Iraq could be something Turkey might be hoping to get the Kurds to flock to...
https://www.encyclopediaofmigration.org/en/iraqi-kurdistan/
The Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq is the first constitutionally recognised autonomous region of the Kurds, a de facto state that is secular and strives for liberal democracy. Internally it has a pluralistic structure. In spite of problems of good governance, the autonomous region has become a source of inspiration for Kurds in other states and has a continuing symbolic and political influence on the historically rooted aspiration for autonomy of the Kurds as a whole. It has become an important strategic actor and stability factor in the region, but also a reliable security partner for the West, especially in the fight against the “Islamic state”.
