Former Erdoğan aide faces backlash over hate speech targeting Alawites in Syria

Turkish journalist Kemal Öztürk, a former press adviser to then-prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has sparked criticism over remarks condemned as hate speech against Arab Alawites in Syria after saying accounts of alleged atrocities could make one feel that they “would deserve it if they were all massacred.”. Öztürk, who later served as director general […] The post Former Erdoğan aide faces backlash over hate speech targeting Alawites in Syria appeared first on Stockholm Center for Freedom.

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