NATO ally Erdo­gan blames US for Pales­tin­ian deaths in Gaza and denounces ‘vam­pire’ Netanyahu

Turk­ish Pres­i­dent Recep Tayyip Erdo­gan, an impor­tant NATO ally, blamed the Unit­ed States for a “geno­cide” in Gaza while label­ing Israeli Prime Min­is­ter Ben­jamin Netanyahu a blood­thirsty “vam­pire.”
Erdo­gan made the com­ments in a speech to Turkey’s par­lia­ment, speak­ing after a recent Israeli airstrike led to dozens of civil­ian deaths in Rafah. Though sev­er­al oth­er NATO mem­bers have been crit­i­cal of Israel dur­ing its war in Gaza, the Turk­ish pres­i­dent has per­haps topped them all, going so far as to show sup­port for Hamas. His Wednes­day remarks denounc­ing Israel and Netanyahu are his strongest yet, com­pari …