A SENIOR Turkish ruling party lawmaker of on Tuesday urged US President Joe Biden to speak up against Israeli violence towards Muslims.
Speaking to reporters in parliament, Mustafa Elitas, deputy parliamentary group chair of the Justice and Development (AK) Party, condemned Israel’s recent attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque and in the Gaza Strip.
All humanity should respect on each other’s religious observances, he said.
“But unfortunately, we are facing an Israel which attacks people gathered at Al-Aqsa Mosque to carry out their religious activities,” he added.
“While the US President [Joe Biden] was commenting on the events of 1915 in Turkey during the [First World] war, it is meaningful that he remained silent on Israel’s persecution of Muslims in the region, in the center of the Middle East where all [Abrahamic] religions are based.”
Biden last month called the events of 1915 when a number of Armenians of the Ottoman Empire
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