Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan used a speech on human rights Saturday to accuse the West of “barbarism” for its stance on the Israel-Hamas war and what he alleged was its toleration of Islamophobia.

“Israel has carried out atrocities and massacres that will shame the whole of humanity,” Erdogan told a packed hall in Istanbul the day before the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

“All the values relating to humanity are being murdered in Gaza. In the face of such brutality, international institutions and human rights organizations are not taking any concrete steps to prevent such violations,” the Turkish leader said.

The human rights declaration, proclaimed by the U.N. General Assembly in Paris on December 10, 1948, enshrines a standard for human rights and freedoms for all people.

  • @CobblerScholar
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    3910 months ago

    Fair hit, you don’t get to be the one to say it Smeagol

    • @TurboDiesel
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      3110 months ago

      My first thought as well. Like, Armenian genocide says what?

      • NoIWontPickaName
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        810 months ago

        When satan looks at what you are doing and it is so bad even he has to denounce it…