Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan upped the stakes yesterday in his tit-for-tat exchanges on Twitter with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the World Israel News website reports today (March 17, 2019).
Erdogan was enraged by Netanyahu's son, Yair, who reminded him in a tweet last week that Turkey's capital city was called Constantinople as "the capital of the Byzantine empire and center of Orthodox Christianity for more than a thousand years before Turkish occupation."
In an additional "reminder," he mentioned various genocides Turks have carried out "against Greeks, Assyrians, and Armenians" and the ethnic cleansing of "all Christians from Asia Minor."
Erdogan responded that the Israeli leader should "twist his son's ear" for his words that insulted Turkey. Netanyahu responded by calling Erdogan a "dictator who sends tens of thousands of political opponents to prison, commits genocide against the Kurds, and [illegally] occupies northern Cyprus."
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