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Tuesday, August 05, 2014

Erdogan uses Gaza as a campaign tool - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

Erdogan uses Gaza as a campaign tool

Israel’s Gaza operation has become one of the central themes of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s campaign for the presidency culminating in an election this Sunday, Aug. 10, the first ever by public vote. Despite strong international criticism, Erdogan has repeatedly compared Israel’s Gaza operation to Adolph Hitler’s barbarism and accuses his opponent, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, of looking the other way on Israeli aggression.

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