“Those who take every opportunity to give other countries lessons on democracy, law and human rights, who throw their weight around when it comes to their own rights, are playing blind, deaf and dumb when it comes to Muslims.”
How are Muslims being deprived of human rights in the West? Erdogan doesn’t say, because he can’t say, because they aren’t. But he knows that playing the victim card gives him immense traction on the Left in the United States. And American Leftists hate America as much as he does.
“Turkey’s Erdoğan slams West for treatment of Muslims, vows to pursue Gülen,” Ahval News, September 23, 2019:
Leading democratic states have failed to protect the rights of Muslims, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told an event organised by a U.S.-Turkish advocacy organisation in New York.
Speaking at the Turkish American National Steering Committee event on Sunday, Erdoğan also vowed to continue pursuing enemies of his government around the world and seeking their extradition to Turkey.
The Turkish president is in New York to participate in the UN General Assembly this week, and is scheduled to address the assembly with a speech on Tuesday.
“Those who take every opportunity to give other countries lessons on democracy, law and human rights, who throw their weight around when it comes to their own rights, are playing blind, deaf and dumb when it comes to Muslims,” Turkish independent news site Diken quoted Erdoğan as saying.
The Turkish president said he would continue to advocate for the Palestinian cause, which he said was a red line for Turkey that he said touched the “dignity of 1.7 billion Muslims worldwide”….
“Until all coup plotters are brought to justice, we will not quit going after them,” Erdoğan said, referring to the Gülen religious movement that the AKP blames for the coup attempt.
Erdoğan said Turkey was taking steps to extradite the group’s leader, Islamist preacher Fethullah Gülen, from the United States, where he has lived in self-imposed exile since 1999.
Ankara is also seeking to shut down operations run by organisations linked to Gülen in the United States, Erdoğan said….