Amazes me how politicians are able to convince themselves that they are morally right and justified when they criticise others but ignore what they are responsible for within their own country.
This is certainly the case with Prime Minister of Turkey Erdogan who has been critical of Syria's record on Human Rights. He is right of course but he needs to remind himself that the Turkish state refuses to allow a 12 million minority of Kurds to speak their own language in Turkey and have resettled thousands of them by force over the years. The systematic arrest of Trade Union leaders is also something he needs to be looking at. As for Turkey's international record he should also review the record on how Turkey occupied an independent sovereign state, Cyprus, in 1974 and continues to do so even today despite numerous UN resolutions.
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