In this article, Muti examines Turkey’s intervention in South Africa’s ICJ case as a test of political credibility in the Middle East. The piece explores the contradictions between Ankara condemning Tel Aviv while continuing to deny its own historical atrocities, rejecting inconvenient UN findings, and silencing dissent at home. In this piece, the Muti explores whether a state with such inconsistencies can truly strengthen the fight for justice, or whether its hypocrisy risks weakening the very cause it champions.

The Zoryan Institute is pleased to announce the publication of this article by one of its graduates of its Genocide and Human Rights University Program, Öndercan Muti, on its academic blog, Scholar’s Corner: “When the Past Doesn’t Stay in the Past: Turkey’s ICJ Move Between Principle and Hypocrisy.” 

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