Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan indicated during a visit to Berlin on Friday that Germany supports Israel in its war on Gaza out of guilt over the Nazi Holocausts, in contrast to Turkey, which he said is capable of speaking without bias.
Erdogan said during a joint press conference with Chancellor Olaf Scholz before the two leaders held private talks, “The Israeli-Palestinian war must not be evaluated with a psychological sense of indebtedness. I speak freely because we do not owe anything to Israel.”
The Turkish presidency said in a statement after a meeting between the Turkish President and his German counterpart, “Erdogan stressed the need for Israel’s attacks on the Palestinian territories to stop, and that the reaction of the whole world against human rights violations is important,” stressing that “a ceasefire must be implemented immediately.” As reported by Agence France-Presse.
Erdogan said earlier this week that Israel is a “terrorist state” committing war crimes in Gaza and that its campaign against Hamas includes the most despicable attacks in human history.
