When Turkish President Erdoğan accuses Israel of attempting to establish the ancient “Greater Israel” on the territory of its neighbors, he is expressing his own collective desire, and that of his supporters, to revive the Ottoman Empire that once ruled those very same regions. 

When he claims, without basis, that Israel seeks to destroy Turkey, he ignores his own calls to bring about Israel’s end. 

While claiming that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians, he denies the genocide his own country committed against the Armenians.