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Turkey's Erdogan calls on Israel to stop attacks on Gaza 'amounting to genocide'

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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.

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The irony...
- I'll never understand why they insist on conflating the Ottoman Empire with Turkey.
  Well, I understand, Erdogan would love to be the Caliph, but it's still ridiculous to feel like you have to defend the actions of an imperial state that was dissolved.
  
  It's unfortunately more than just that
Turkey is okay with Hamas firing rockets at Israel though.
- Hamas is using Turkish drones
  
  https://www.yenisafak.com/teknoloji/turk-sirketi-gelistirdi-dunyada-lidar-teknolojisini-kullanan-ilk-drone-3524472
- Of course. His radicalised base is generally pretty antisemitic.
Meanwhile he continues airstrikes against the Kurds in Northern Syria/Rojava, using the Gaza crisis as a distraction.
A broken clock is right twice a day.
- Yeah.. as much as I hate his guts, on this one he's at least right. Now let's hope he stops bombing kurds.
Remember when Erdogan came to the US and started having his men beat US protestors?
Why would Israel stop while there are still hostages?
- Maybe, just maybe, because literally thousands of innocent human beings are dying? I sometimes feel like I live in a different reality that this needs to be said.
  
  I understand that, but how are Israel supposed to get their hostages back?
- If blood libel was true, would it have justified the Holocaust?
He was also heard mumbling, Turks know it when they see it
Sooo… are there still rockets being fired from Terrorists? Are the hostages still being kept by the terrorists?
Why should Israel stop attacking the terrorists?
- Because thousands of innocent civilians are being killed too?
  
  Copied from a different comment: Prove (!) that the casualties in Palestine aren’t primarily Hamas Terrorists. The claim by their „Health Authority“ means nothing - because that is Hamas.
- I don't like Hammas, specially because they were funded by Israel to attack Fattah and other members of the PLO in the 80' and spread terror until today.
  But right now Hammas is trying to negotiate to release their hostages, but for Israel is more important to bomb Gaza (supposedly Hammas, cause of course there is no secular civilians in Gaza) than the safety of their own citizens.
  Its not like Israel could still attack Hammas after the deal, you know?
  
  Hammas is trying to negotiate to release their hostages
  Hamas can release the hostages at any second. There are no negotiations required for Hamas to cease their active imprisonment of kidnapped people.
  
  Yeah, it sounds in your posts like Hamas are the good guys, care about the hostages, trying to release them against Israel will. Of course this is after Hamas without provocation brutally killed 1500 civilians, and captured those hostages. But of course, it is Israeli fault.
- Because their aim is shit. If my aim was as bad as theirs, I wouldn't have kids.
  
  Their aim is shit? Prove (!) that the casualties in Palestine aren’t primarily Hamas Terrorists. The claim by their „Health Authority“ means nothing - because that is Hamas.
- You are being sarcastic here... right ?
  
  Not at all.
  Long read THE OPERATION IN GAZA 27 DECEMBER 2008 – 18 JANUARY 2009 Factual and Legal Aspects
- Sooo… are there still rockets being fired from Terrorists?
  Yes! And they should stop before more innocent civilian lives are destroyed; not that they care about civilians at all!
  Are the hostages still being kept by the terrorists?
  I think they just kill them rather than take hostages, right? They consider them to be like animals!
  Why should Israel stop attacking the terrorists?
  Ohh, you meant Hamas?
  
  You don’t seem to understand the concept of war. If Hamas deliberately places launch sites close to civilian infrastructure, which is a war crime in itself by the way, this infrastructure becomes a legitimate target. Civilian casualties have to be avoided but not at all costs. Especially if Hamas Terrorists wear civilian clothing.
  This is International Humanitarian Law - the Law of War.
  I think they just kill them rather than take hostages, right? They consider them to be like animals!
  ISIS style killings is not beneath Hamas and Islamic Jihad. And yes - those Terrorists act like animals deliberately.
- I'll remember these kind of comments next time I hear that "never again" nonsense.
  
  You definitely should remember this, since this is the reality of war that Hamas has forced on the Palestinian people. And Hamas tries everything in their power to exacerbate the civilian casualties by deliberately placing their launch sites close to civilian infrastructure and civilians as a whole and also dressing like civilians.
  So tell me, how should Israel protect its own citizens against the Hamas/Islamic Jihad war criminals that STILL fire rockets against civilians?
- It's called diplomacy, start practicing now because there won't be any more opportunities when the whole middle east have each other under siege like Israel is doing to Palestineans now.
  
  Interesting take
  So the murdering of those civilians on October 7 was a call for negotiations by Hamas?

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