A picture of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, altered to look like Adolf Hilter, 6 June 2013. Thanassis Stavrakis/PA Images. All rights reserved.
“Humanitarian aid to [civilians] must be allowed immediately. ‘Surrender or starve’ tactics are directly contrary to the law of war.”
Any western leader might easily use these words to scold the Turkish state, and its starvation of Kurdish towns to the south-east of the country. But it would be highly unlikely. In fact, John Kerry’s tweet was aimed at the Syrian regime, not the Turkish one.
