Erdoğan's Lectures Germany on “Genocide” While Backing Terrorists and Bombing Kurds
In yet another theatrical display of Islamist bravado, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan turned a diplomatic meeting into a spectacle of anti-Israel propaganda—this time at a joint press conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Ankara. The self-styled “Caliph-in-waiting” accused Germany of “turning a blind eye to genocide, famine, and massacres” in Gaza — a grotesque distortion of reality meant to absolve Hamas of its own crimes.
Erdoğan, a lifelong Muslim Brotherhood loyalist, thundered that “Israel possesses nuclear and other weapons it threatens Gaza with, while Hamas has none.” Omitted from his sermon was any mention of Hamas’s deliberate attacks on Israeli civilians, the slaughter of October 7, or the killing of an IDF soldier just days ago that prompted Israel’s retaliatory strike. In Erdoğan’s world, truth bends to ideology — and jihadists become martyrs.
“Does Germany not see these?” Erdoğan demanded, wagging his finger at his visibly uncomfortable German guest. “It is our humanitarian duty to stop the famine and massacres in Gaza.”
Erdogan challenged Merz during their meeting, asking, “Does Germany not see Israeli genocide in Gaza?” pic.twitter.com/IwayzYPD5c
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) October 30, 2025
A Stage for Hypocrisy
The tirade came as the Trump administration continues its diplomatic push to include Turkey in a multinational security force for postwar Gaza—an idea Israel firmly rejects. A U.S. official, quoted by Axios, admitted Washington was “aware of Israeli concerns,” but insisted Turkey had been “helpful in getting the Gaza deal.”
Helpful? Erdoğan’s version of help has been to provide political shelter, financial backing, and media amplification for Hamas. His closest advisors have flooded Turkish social media with conspiratorial posts celebrating the October 7 massacre, and Erdoğan himself has preached that “Jerusalem will one day return to Turkey.”
A viral post circulating for over two years even features photoshopped Turkish soldiers storming Jerusalem, captioned: “A mother will have her child again.” To Erdoğan’s Islamist base, that “mother” is the Ottoman Caliphate — and the “child” is the Islamic conquest of Jerusalem.
The Sultan’s Empire of Terror
Turkey’s modern reality is no less alarming. Under Erdoğan’s tightening grip, Ankara has transformed from a secular democracy into an Islamist stronghold that shelters Hamas operatives, persecutes dissenters, and exports violence across borders. Turkey’s decades-long campaign of terror against the Kurds in Syria and Iraq continues unabated — ignored by the same Western governments Erdoğan now lectures about “human rights.”
Despite being a NATO member, Erdoğan has consistently defied alliance values, buying Russian S-400 missile systems, cozying up to Iran, and weaponizing migration to pressure Europe. His domestic policies mirror his foreign ambitions: shuttering opposition media, jailing political rivals, rewriting school curriculums to glorify Ottoman conquests, and tightening laws that erode women’s freedoms and minority rights.
Each year, Turkey grows more theocratic, less democratic, and increasingly aligned with the same extremist ideologies it once vowed to contain.
So much for moral leadership!
— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) October 28, 2025
UK sells £8 billion in fighter jets to Turkey, a regime that murders Kurds, jails journalists and harbours Hamas, while maintaining an arms embargo on Israel!
I guess profits and hypocrisy trump principles! pic.twitter.com/g2njExXVmD
Israel’s Justified Distrust
Israel’s skepticism toward Turkish involvement in Gaza isn’t paranoia—it’s survival instinct. Erdoğan’s rhetoric and alliances prove that his goal isn’t peace or reconstruction but the resurrection of political Islam on Israel’s ruins. His attempt to weaponize “humanitarian concern” for Gaza is nothing more than a PR campaign for a 21st-century Caliphate, one that begins with the vilification of Israel and ends with the destabilization of the entire Middle East.
If Erdoğan wishes to lecture Europe about morality, he should first look inward—at the Kurdish villages his air force has bombed, the journalists he has imprisoned, and the terrorists he has embraced. Until then, his cries of “genocide” are not the voice of compassion — but the echo of empire.
