In a nation where sensitivity is still extremely high for references to Nazi Germany or behaviors publicly compared to Hitler or Nazism, the prime minister called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s vitriolic outburst comparing the controversial Nation-State Law to edicts of Hitler’s Nazis a “complement.” Most seem to agree. The attitude seen by this agency so far is more in the nature of “the man should know” and “you would expect different from the guy who has fired, arrested and jailed tens of thousands for disagreeing with him and has arrested hundreds of journalists for failing to support him or publicly criticizing the president. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that the Turkish “champion of democracy…slaughters Syrians and Kurds and imprisons thousands of his citizens.”
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