Channel 2 is teasing out bits of Ilana Dayan’s interview with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to be aired on the Uvda program at 9 p.m.
During the extremely rare interview, Dayan asks Erdogan about his comment calling Israel “more barbaric that Hitler” during the 2014 war in Gaza.
“I don’t agree with what Hitler did and I also don’t agree with what Israel did in Gaza,” he’s quoted saying, in a translation of the Turkish into Hebrew into English. “Thus, there’s no place to make a comparison over what is more barbaric. …You killed thousands of people in Gaza and Palestine, and I said you know well how to kill people,” he is quoted saying.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks to Israel’s Channel 2 in an interview aired November 20, 2016 (screen capture)
He also chides Dayan for trying to question him about the Israeli raid on the Gaza blockade-busting ship Mavi Marmara in 2010, which led to the deaths of 10 Turks during a brawl with troops and contributed to a deterioration in ties between Jerusalem and Ankara.
He also says he is in constant contact with terror group Hamas and accuses Israel of trying to take over the al-Aqsa Mosque on the flashpoint Temple Mount.
But referencing the recent thaw with Israel, he says he does not want to get bogged down in talking about such things.
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