ERDOGAN, WHO PERSUADED TRUMP TO PULL US TROOPS OUT OF SYRIA, ACCUSES JEWS OF KICKING MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN WHEN THEY ARE LYING ON THE FLOOR

Netanyahu: Erdogan, whose army massacres women and children in Kurdish villages, shouldn’t preach morality to Israel

By Tovah Lazaroff

The Jerusalem Post
December 23, 2018

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s attack against Jews, stating that he was hardly in any position to be preaching morality.

“Erdogan – the occupier of northern Cyprus, whose army massacres women and children in Kurdish villages, inside and outside Turkey should not preach to Israel,” Netanyahu said.

Netanyahu spoke out after Erdogan publicly stated, that Jews in Israel kick people when they lie on the floor, adding that Jews kick not only men but also women and children.

Muslims, Erdogan said, will confront the Jews “if they have the courage to deal with us, and we will teach them a lesson.”

Earlier this year, Erdogan said that Israel had shown itself to be a “terrorist state” by attacking Palestinians [in Gaza] with tanks and artillery, claiming that the spirit of Adolf Hitler had re-emerged among some Israeli policy-makers.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Israel and Turkey were allies until Islamist Erdogan assumed power.
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Erdogan says new Israeli law fascist, Hitler's spirit re-emerging

Reuters
July 24, 2018

ANKARA -- Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday an Israeli law declaring that only Jews have the right of self-determination legitimizes oppression and shows that Israel is a fascist and racist country where the spirit of Adolf Hitler has re-emerged.

Last week, the Israeli Knesset passed a “nation-state” law, angering members of the country’s Arab minority and prompting Turkey to accuse Israel of trying to form “an apartheid state”.

Speaking to members of his ruling AK Party in parliament, Erdogan said the law showed Israel was “the most Zionist, fascist and racist country in the world”, and called on the international community to mobilize against Israel.

“The Jewish nation-state law passed in the Israeli parliament shows this country’s real intentions. It legitimizes all unlawful actions and oppression,” Erdogan said.

“There is no difference between Hitler’s Aryan race obsession and Israel’s mentality. Hitler’s spirit has re-emerged among administrators in Israel,” he said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded by saying that under Erdogan, Turkey was turning into a “dark dictatorship”, accusing the Turkish president of “massacring Syrians and Kurds”.

Erdogan said Israel had shown itself to be a “terror state” by attacking Palestinians with tanks and artillery, adding that the move would “drown the region and world in blood and suffering”.

Turkey and Israel, former allies, expelled each other’s top diplomats in May during a row over clashes in which dozens of Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces on the Gaza border. However, the two sides continue to trade with one another.

The two countries have long been at loggerheads over Israel’s policy toward the Palestinians and Jerusalem’s status. Erdogan has called for a summit of Muslim leaders twice in the past six months after U.S. President Donald Trump decided to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.