Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivered a scathing condemnation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, comparing Israel’s actions in Gaza to the atrocities of the Holocaust and declaring that “Netanyahu and his network of evil have long surpassed Hitler in barbarity.”
In a post on social media platform X, Erdogan wrote, “Even during the Holocaust in Europe, we did not witness such inhumane images as we are seeing in Gaza today.”
Netanyahu ve katliam şebekesi barbarlıkta Hitler’i çoktan geride bıraktı.
Avrupa’daki Holokost sürecinde dahi Gazze’deki kadar insanlık dışı görüntüler ortaya çıkmadı.…
— Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (@RTErdogan) July 22, 2025
“No one with a shred of human dignity can accept, remain silent, or agree with this brutality, where dozens of innocent people die every day for lack of a piece of bread or a sip of water,” Erdogan said. “Those who remain silent in the face of genocide in Gaza become complicit in the crimes against humanity being committed by Israel.”
The Turkish leader described harrowing scenes: “severed heads, arms and legs of babies, unburied corpses, and the heart-wrenching cries of mothers.” He called on the international community to act, stressing that the situation has reached a new level of horror with people now dying from starvation.
“In these dark days, as mass deaths from hunger begin, I call on the international community to unite on the side of humanity,” Erdogan urged. “Let us all together speak out against this savagery. Let us say, ‘Enough is enough.’ Let us not allow a handful of power-hungry enemies of humanity to further disgrace what it means to be human.”
Erdogan’s remarks are the latest in a series of increasingly forceful condemnations from Ankara regarding Israel’s military operations in Gaza.
