What about Turkey and Cyprus? On July 20, two important incidents were reported by the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation, the country's national public broadcaster. "Cyprus has been Hellenic for 3,500 years and Christian for 2,000 years. Never did the Turkish Cypriot minority, during its brief presence on Cyprus, hold on to any contiguous part of the island." The first report covered how Turkish officials, including Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, were bashing Israel, the "oppressor," for initiating a military operation in Gaza. Of course, there was no mention of this being a response to hundreds of rockets fired into Israel by Hamas. It also did not come as a shock that the broadcast did not utter a single word about Hamas aiming at civilian areas in Israel, rejecting a cease-fire offer that had been accepted by Israel, and using its own people, including children, as human shields. Because of the biased reporting by both pro-g...
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