The idea of a European civilization has come to an end, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Monday, criticizing the European countries’ indifference toward the humanitarian tragedies in Syria and Myanmar.

“Europe died in Bosnia and it was buried in Syria. The bodies of innocent children washing up ashore are the tombstones of the Western civilization. Unfortunately, in the last seven years, the old European values have been discredited and destroyed by the very owners of these values,” he said during a program at the Presidential Complex in Ankara commemorating the 14th anniversary of Bosnian leader Alija Izetbegovic’s death.

The devastating picture of Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi’s body washed ashore on a beach in the Turkish resort town of Bodrum, shocked the world in September 2015, moving many international groups to call for action against the atrocities in Syria and better immigration policies from the EU states.

“Those who did not see the atrocity in Bosnia are also deaf and blind to the atrocity in Rakhine,” the president said, adding that even though the times and actors have changed, people’s pain and suffering has continued as “imperialist bloodsuckers continue to exploit.”

“What is the difference between what happened 25 years ago in Bosnia and what we are witnessing today in Syria?”

At least 100,000 were killed in Bosnia-Herzegovina during the Bosnian War between 1992 and 1995, more than 80 percent of whom were Muslim Bosniaks from and around the town of Srebrenica, by Serbian troops under the command of General Ratko Mladić, after the Bosnian Serb army attacked the U.N. safe area of Srebrenica. The International Court of Justice recognized the massacre in Srebrenica as genocide in 2007.

The Srebrenica massacre, during which mass rapes and killings took place, is the only genocide recognized by an international court. The bodies of many killed in the mass murders are still missing, as Serb forces buried them in mass graves.

In Myanmar, the 1.1 million Rohingya, described by the U.N. as the world’s most persecuted people, have faced heightened fears of attack since dozens were killed in communal violence in 2012. The Rohingya are denied citizenship and classified as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, despite having roots in the region that date back over a century, while being marginalized and occasionally subjected to violence in Myanmar. The U.N. documented mass gang rapes, killings – including of infants and young children – brutal beatings and disappearances committed by security personnel. An estimated 436,000 Rohingya have arrived in Bangladesh in the last month alone, fleeing violence from Myanmar authorities that the U.N. has called a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing.” According to Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Abul Hasan Mahmood Ali, around 3,000 Rohingya have been killed in the bloodshed. In total, more than 800,000 Rohingya refugees are now believed to be in Bangladesh…..More Here