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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan used a speech on human rights Saturday to accuse the West of “barbarism” for its stance on the Israel-Hamas war and what he alleged was its toleration of Islamophobia.

“Israel has carried out atrocities and massacres that will shame the whole of humanity,” Erdogan told a packed hall in Istanbul the day before the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

“All the values relating to humanity are being murdered in Gaza. In the face of such brutality, international institutions and human rights organizations are not taking any concrete steps to prevent such violations,” the Turkish leader said.

The human rights declaration, proclaimed by the U.N. General Assembly in Paris on December 10, 1948, enshrines a standard for human rights and freedoms for all people.

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[-] avater@lemmy.world -3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I suppose fighting against Hamas is also very islamophobic, right? At least for our pal Erdogan here.

Let's not forget that this little dictator praised the Hamas as freedom fighters a few weeks ago and declared them not to be terrorists.

And with his anti-Israeli rhetoric, Erdogan primarily serves his own conservative Islamic electorate...nothing more.

[-] AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

The vast overwhelming majority of people being murdered in Gaza are not Hamas and have nothing to do with them. What's going on in Gaza is the extermination of an ethnic group from land that they historically inhabited alongside another ethnic group that despite experiencing a most horrific extermination of a similar type is unable to reign in its own genocidal government.

Erdogon is truly a garbage human being and an opportunist, a monstrous piece of shit and a terrible statesman, but he has the moral high ground compared to somebody like Benjamin Netanyahu who is basically the moral equivalent of a Nazi.

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

I’ll give Erdy credit for being a broken clock, that’s about it. If he actually cared about self determination he wouldn’t treat Kurds like shit. He gets real mad when you call the PKK freedom fighters but is perfectly happy saying as much about Hamas

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