Alwaght- Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan compared Israeli regime’s crimes against the Palestinians in Gaza to Nazis' methods against Jews in World War II.
"There is no difference between the atrocity faced by the Jewish people in Europe 75 years ago and the brutality that our Gaza brothers are subjected to,” Turkish President Erdogan said on Friday In a special session of Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Istanbul.
Israeli forces killed over 60 of Palestinian protesters and injured more than 2,700 others last week. The protests in besieged Gaza border coincided with the US embassy relocation to al-Quds (Jerusalem).
“The children of those being subject to all sorts of torture in concentration camps during World War II are now attacking Palestinians with methods that would put Nazis to shame,” Erdogan reiterated.
Presidents, prime ministers and other dignitaries from over 40 Muslim states gathered for an emergency meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). The gathering showed support for Palestinians and condemned the inauguration of the US embassy in al-Quds. The OIC has also pledged to create an “international peacekeeping force” to protect the Palestinians.
A long-time critic of Israel, Erdogan recently engaged in a war of words with Israeli regime's premier Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing him of being “a terrorist” and leading “an apartheid state.” The Israeli premier did not mince his words either, calling Erdogan “a butcher” with reference to Turkey’s ‘Olive Branch’ operation in Syria’s Kurdish enclave of Afrin.
Speaking at the rally on Friday, the Turkish leader also complained that "The Muslim world has failed the Jerusalem test. Not only the Muslim world, humanity as a whole has failed in the Jerusalem test.
"The al-Aqsa mosque is more frequently being contaminated under the boots of radical Zionists," Erdogan said referring to Muslims' third holiest site that is based in al-Quds city.
