[Gatestone Institute] Erdogan: "The Image of the Jews Is No Different from that of the Nazis"

Erdogan: "The Image of the Jews Is No Different from that of the Nazis"

... In the section for Turkey, the journal quoted the then-mayor of Istanbul, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in June 1997, at a meeting organized by the municipality to celebrate the city's conquest by the Ottoman Turks, remarking: "The Jews have begun to crush the Muslims of Palestine, in the name of Zionism," the mayor said, "Today, the image of the Jews is no different from that of the Nazis. ...