Erdogan: Many countries do not react when Greece sinks refugee boats in the Aegean

With excessive audacity, the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, attacked Greece referring to the issue of immigration, on the occasion of the World Human Rights Day.

“Many countries are just watching the Mediterranean turn into a huge cemetery. They show no reaction when Greece sinks refugee boats in the Aegean. We have not heard and do not hear a single critical statement about these tragedies we see on television every day, even from “Those who speak the language of sanctions, even on issues that our country is right about,” Erdogan said, setting aside Turkish practices of instrumentalizing the ‘ala Evros’ or ‘ala Belarus’ migrants.

At the same time that women in Turkey are being treated as inferior to men, who when they think of protesting for their rights are being attacked with chemicals and clubs by the Turkish police, Erdogan spoke of Europe’s “hypocrisy” over the rights of women. women. He claimed that they were targeting Turkey for not adopting the Istanbul Convention, but that these same countries were committing atrocities against women.

“The discriminatory regulations that do not give women the right to exist in the public sphere are easily applied in Western countries without any reaction. The silence of those who target us through the Istanbul Convention in the face of these atrocities that victimize our citizens is very strange.” he said.

Then, as in any social issue, he tried to advance his agenda on the issue of Islamophobia: “Islamophobia and culture-based racism are growing day by day. Today, in many western countries, apostles of democracy and “Human rights rhetoric has prevailed in politics and everyday life. Fascist practices, which deprive them of their most basic rights and freedoms, have become almost commonplace.”