“Is there anything Netanyahu did less than Hitler? No,” Erdogan said. The Turkish president also criticizes Germany regarding its stance in the Gaza war.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has again attacked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his actions in the Gaza war, comparing him to Adolf Hitler.
“We’ve seen Israel’s Nazi camps in stadiums, haven’t we? What is that? How are you different from Hitler?” Erdogan said at a science awards ceremony in Ankara. He did not explain what he meant exactly, but videos of Palestinian prisoners being held in a stadium in the Gaza Strip have been circulating on social media in recent days. “Is there anything that Netanyahu did less than Hitler? No,” Erdogan continued.
Israel strongly opposed Erdogan’s statements. “His words are deeply offensive to every Jew around the world,” said Israeli President Izchak Herzog on Wednesday evening. Erdogan violated the memory of millions of Jews who were murdered by the Nazis.
Criticism of Germany
Erdogan also criticized the fact that Germany has not condemned Netanyahu for the many civilian victims in the Gaza Strip. “I say this very clearly, look: Germany is still paying the price today for what Hitler did. That’s why Germany is silent, it has lowered its head,” said Erdogan.
Erdogan, as head of state of a NATO country actually an ally of the USA, also once again criticized US support for Israel. With help from Washington, Netanyahu’s government was able to kill over 20,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, he said.
On Wednesday, the Hamas-controlled Health Ministry said at least 21,110 people had been killed since the Gaza war began on October 7. The numbers cannot be independently verified. The war was triggered by the worst massacre in Israel’s history, which terrorists from Hamas and other groups carried out in Israel on October 7th, in which 1,200 people were killed.
Erdogan is a staunch supporter of the Palestinians. He refuses to classify the Islamist Hamas as terrorist and repeatedly attacks Netanyahu verbally. For example, he also referred to him as the “Butcher of Gaza.”
