Israel hits back at ‘rights violator’ Erdogan
‘Israel has hit back at Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who recently compared Israeli practices against Muslims to apartheid.
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon on Monday said, “Whoever systematically violates human rights in their own country should not preach morality to the only true democracy in the region.”
Earlier on Monday, Erdogan had pledged never to allow a controversial ban on Muslim calls to prayers to take effect in occupied Palestine.
The ban has been envisioned in an Israeli bill, which was approved by ministers in February but is yet to be adopted by the Israeli parliament.
“God willing, we will never allow the silencing of azan (the Islamic call to prayers) in the skies of Jerusalem,” Erdogan said at the International Jerusalem Foundations Forum in Istanbul.’
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