Turkey’s president tells Pope Israel’s bombardment of Gaza is ‘a massacre’

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the West of ‘indifference’ towards the suffering of Muslims in the Israel-Hamas conflict (Paul Ellis/PA)

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has told the Pope that Israel’s attacks on Gaza have “reached the level of a massacre” and that the international community’s silence was a “shame for humanity”.

Mr Erdogan discussed the Israeli-Hamas conflict with Pope Francis on Thursday.