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.

  • Maalus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Let me guess, they should “protect its own citizens” by commiting genocide by bombing everything to the ground in the Gaza Strip?

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      1 year ago

      Quit throwing around the word genocide, if you obviously do not know what it means. It sounds fancy and strong though, doesn’t it?

      Let me guess, they should “protect its own citizens” by commiting genocide by bombing everything to the ground in the Gaza Strip?

      You cannot answer a question with another question.

      How should Israel protect its own citizens against the Hamas/Islamic Jihad war criminals that STILL fire rockets against civilians?

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        1 year ago

        I know exactly what “genocide” means. It means a deliberate killing of a group of people with the intent of destroying their nation / group. It also means displacing people out of their lands to get rid of their national identity. I wonder if that has happened recently in Gaza.

        I can ask an obviously biased person on the internet if they support genocide. Which you do - otherwise you wouldn’t try to say it’s not genocide, and then ask “what else are they supposed to do if not commit genocide? :(”

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          1 year ago

          Civilians die and are displaced in every war, that doesn’t automatically make it genocide lmao. Are they levelling the west bank too?

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              1 year ago

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

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                1 year ago

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

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                  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.