While the vast majority of Turkey’s Western allies were quick to condemn Hamas’s vicious terrorist attacks in Israel, Ankara took an ambiguous approach. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a day after the attacks, remarked that it was Turkey’s “responsibility to stand with the oppressed.” This statement was likely delivered with full knowledge on the president’s part that 5,000 rockets had been launched by Hamas into Israel, indiscriminately killing over 1,000 civilians, in addition to further atrocities, including but not limited to the decapitation of Israeli babies.