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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Israel Invokes the Armenian Genocide in Slamming Erdogan

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey on Sunday threatened military action against Israel accusing the Jewish State of atrocities being carried out against Palestine and Lebanon. The Turkish leader cited interventions in Karabakh as a blueprint for its proposed attack.

Meanwhile, Israel responded by accusing Turkey of “building its economy on the Armenian Genocide,” calling Erdogan a “megalomaniacal dictator.”

“We must be strong to prevent Israel from doing this to Palestine,” Erdogan told reporters on Sunday. “Just as we entered Karabakh, just as we entered Libya, we will do the same to them,” he added. “There is nothing to prevent us from doing it. We just need to be strong so that we can take these steps.”

This became yet another public admission by Erdogan that Turkey was actively involved and engaged in the 2020 Artsakh War, a fact being downplayed by Turkish diplomatic circles and ignored by the international community.

Earlier in the day, in an address to the International Asia-Political Parties Conference being convened in Istanbul, Erodgan called Israel’s actions “barbaric.”

“The blood-stained genocide network continues to kill innocent children, women, and civilians without any rule or principle, ignoring all kinds of human values,” Erdogan said at the conference.

Sharply condemning Erdogan’s remarks, Israel’s Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu accused the Turkish leader of hypocrisy, noting Turkey’s history of territorial aggression in Cyprus and its treatment of minorities, particularly the Kurds, reported MSN.com.

“Turkey, which conquered Northern Cyprus and controls Kurdish territories in the east, dares to lecture us on morality. Turkey, which built its economy on the Armenian Genocide, dares to accuse us of genocide. Turkey, which enforces Islamization by force, dares to speak about human rights,” Eliyahu said in a statement. 

“The hypocritical Erdogan doesn’t impress anyone with this current circus,” he continued, describing the Turkish president as a “megalomaniacal dictator” with “imperialist ambitions” who sees himself as “an Ottoman Sultan while being no more than a pathetic tyrant of a country with a collapsing economy and a dead democracy.” 

Eliyahu’s remarks went further than only criticizing Erdogan, implying that it was time for Israel and Turkey to “close this sad chapter of relations” and vowing to bring a proposal before the Israeli government to sever diplomatic ties with Turkey completely.

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