Turkey Says U.S. Diverting Gaze From Gaza by Attacking Erdogan
- State Department issues statement over diatribe on Gaza
- Erdogan also snipes at Biden for recognizing Armenian genocide
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Turkey accused the U.S. of attempting to divert international attention from the Israeli military campaign against Gaza Strip militants by condemning the Turkish president’s criticism of the onslaught as anti-Semitic.
“Enabling an apartheid regime in its repression of innocent people in occupied territories and then turning around and blaming others who call it out is the height of hypocrisy,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s communications director, Fahrettin Altun, said on Twitter. “We categorically reject any attempt to misrepresent our President Erdogan’s words.”