“Those who take every opportunity to give other countries lessons on democracy, law and human rights, who throw their weight around when it comes to their own rights, are playing blind, deaf and dumb when it comes to Muslims.”

How are Muslims being deprived of human rights in the West? Erdogan doesn’t say, because he can’t say, because they aren’t. But he knows that playing the victim card gives him immense traction on the Left in the United States. And American Leftists hate America as much as he does.

“Turkey’s Erdoğan slams West for treatment of Muslims, vows to pursue Gülen,” Ahval News, September 23, 2019: