Israel Matzav

Bipartisan group of US Reps slam Erdogan's anti-Semitism

A bipartisan group of 46 US Representatives has sent a letter to Turkish President Abdullah Gul slamming Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's anti-Semitism.

The letter requested Gül to publically condemn “the anti-semitic rhetoric” of government officials.

The signatories noted that another letter had been written a few months ago asking Erdoğan to retract his statements that compared Zionism to a “crime against humanity,” without success.

They also argued that Erdoğan’s accusations of an “interest rate lobby” engineering the Gezi protests were implicitly targeting Jews, recalling that Deputy Prime Minister Beşir Atalay had openly stated that a “Jewish diaspora” was behind the recent unrest in Turkey.

The letter was prepared on the initiative of Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Illinois), Rep. Randy Weber (R-Texas), Rep. Lois Frankel (D-Florida) and Mark Meadows (R-North Carolina) and signed by congressmen from both the Democrat and Republican parties, the report said.

I wonder why they didn't also mention the little Nazi while they were at it.

At the end of the day, Erdogan and Davutoglu are both anti-Semites and they're not going to apologize for it. I'm happy to see the US Congress beginning to recognize and deal with that reality.

Labels: Abdullah Gul, Ahmet Davutoglu, Nazis, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish anti-Semitism, US House of Representatives

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:06 PM