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May 25, 2021The Biden administration got off to a bad start by referring to the 1915 events as a “genocide.” The United States Department of State took another problematic step ahead of Joe Biden’s meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan by accusing the latter of anti-Semitism.
The Biden administration got off to a bad start by referring to the 1915 events as a “genocide.” The United States Department of State took another problematic step ahead of Joe Biden’s meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan by accusing the latter of anti-Semitism.
The rights of non-Muslims and refugees are among those issues, over which the West criticizes Turkey in ridiculous ways. Describing Erdoğan as an anti-Semite reflects this situation.
‘The Western condition’
Let us recall that the Turkish president took unprecedented steps to return the properties of non-Muslim foundations – unlike Greece and others. He made a careful distinction between the Jewish community and Zionism and the apartheid regime to respect Turkey’s Jews. He has repeatedly stressed that there is no room for anti-Semitism in the Muslim world and that anti-Semitism is a Western condition.
Indeed, the Turkish Jewry reacted harshly to Washington’s accusation: “To claim that President Erdoğan is an anti-Semite is extremely unfair and shameless. Quite the contrary, he has always been constructive, supportive and encouraging toward us.”
That consideration does not stop Erdoğan from supporting the Palestinian cause. The Turkish president did not refrain from speaking for Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque even during Donald Trump‘s presidency in the U.S. He vocally opposed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s extreme policy of expansionism.
In light of those facts, there is no doubt that Washington’s “extremely unfair
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