Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday called on Israel to stop its attacks on Gaza, which he said amounted to genocide, and urged the international community to work for a humanitarian ceasefire in the region.

ANKARA, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday called on Israel to stop its attacks on Gaza, which he said amounted to genocide, and urged the international community to work for a humanitarian ceasefire in the region.

In a post on social messaging platform X, Erdogan also said Israel was provoking non-regional actors instead of turning back from its mistakes in Gaza, adding that the region needed saving from the “frenzy of madness” supported by Western powers and media.

  • zenitsu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 jaar geleden

    God forbid anyone ask you to be more precise with your definitions instead of shitting out whatever word gets you the most emotional points.

    • Maalus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 jaar geleden

      Genocide is a precise enough definition for what is happening in Palestine.

      • zenitsu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        1 jaar geleden

        Clearly passes the bar for “precision” in your mind, though that bar seems low. Genocide is a bit of a pointless word to throw at Israel because you’d have to automatically apply it to the other side too, the side that has blatantly declared its intent for genocide but just doesn’t have the power to back it up fully. So before accusing Israel of genocide without doing the same for Hamas, imagine what things would look like there if the power dynamic was reversed.