Germany is unwilling to criticise Israel’s conduct in the war with Hamas because of its “psychology of guilt” over the Holocaust, Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has suggested.
At a tense joint press conference during Mr Erdogan’s first visit to Germany since 2020, chancellor Olaf Scholz said it was no secret they held “very different views on the conflict”, which was reignited on a level not seen in decades by Hamas’s brutal cross-border massacre of 1,200 Israelis on 7 October.
