ISTANBUL — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday criticized U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s approach to the latest Israel-Hamas war.
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“He is saying ‘I’m not approaching Israel as a foreign secretary but rather as a Jew.’ What kind of approach is this?” Erdogan said, referring to Blinken’s comments in Israel on Thursday in which he emphasized his Jewish heritage.
Addressing a Turkey-Africa business conference in Istanbul, Erdogan added: “What if your counterpart tells you ‘I’m approaching the region as a Muslim.’ How would you answer? Whether Jewish or Turkish or anything else, we don’t care. You should approach everyone as human.”
The president also criticized the U.S. deployment of an aircraft carrier group to the eastern Mediterranean as “not in line with mediating tensions between parties.”
Mr Turkey ! Stay out of the Middle East and keep your comments to yourself
Erdogan plays both sides of the fence.
It’s like telling turkey I am approaching Thanks Giving as an American..
Muslims are a people of piece, not peace. That means, they love to “piece together” arguments to excuse their abhorrent and often violence-loving stands.
What Blinkin actually said was that he was approaching the situation ALSO as a Jew.
Erdogan has never even been able to hide his anti-semitism.
This is the guy who wants America to start calling his country Turkya because he heard that turkey, in America doesn’t hint to a nice connotation! What a turkey indeed!
What a hypocrite
Thank you Recep Tay-Yip-Yap erDOGan, Mishugener Hundt.
Blinken should have said he’s approaching it as an Armenean (Turkey slaughtered a million of them in cold blooded racial genocide).
In theory, he happens to have a fair point, though we know that this is just stupid politics.