What did you do to stop it?

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From Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the President of Turkey

Today is October 7th… Exactly 365 days ago, 50 thousand of our brothers and sisters, mostly children and women, who were alive, were brutally murdered. The hospitals, places of worship for different faiths, and schools in Gaza are no longer standing. Many journalists, representatives of civil society organizations, and ambassadors of peace are no longer among us.

In Gaza, in Palestine, and nowadays in Lebanon, those who die are not only women, children, babies, and innocent civilians; they are also humanity, institutions that are expected to serve humanity, and the international system…

What has been massacred live on TV in front of the eyes of the world for exactly 1 year is actually all of humanity, all of humanity’s hopes for the future.

Today, I remember with sorrow the tens of thousands of people who have been massacred by the murderous Israeli government since October 7, and I offer my most heartfelt condolences to my heartbroken Gazan, Palestinian and Lebanese brothers and sisters who lost their spouses, children and families.

Israel’s long-standing policy of genocide, occupation and invasion must now come to an end.

It should not be forgotten that Israel will sooner or later pay the price for this genocide that it has been carrying out for a year and is still continuing.

Just as Hitler was stopped by the common alliance of humanity, Netanyahu and his murder network will be stopped in the same way.

A world in which no account is held for the Gaza genocide will ever find peace.

As Türkiye, we will continue to stand against the Israeli government, no matter what the cost, and call on the world to take this honorable stance.

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