And the blood of many more likely to be spilled due to his refusal to allow aid and support to the Kurds just over the Turkish border in Kobani.
Erdogan has never in the past been hesitant to use the largest military in the middle east for cross border incursions against Kurds but now when he has the opportunity to help prevent their mass slaughter he sits on his hands watching their deaths from afar.
Thousands of people most likely will be massacred if Kobani falls to Islamic State fighters, a U.N. envoy said on Friday, as militants fought deeper into the besieged Syrian Kurdish town in full view of Turkish tanks that have done nothing to intervene.
U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura said Kobani could suffer the same fate as the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, where 8,000 Muslims were murdered by Serbs in 1995, Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two, while U.N. peacekeepers failed to protect them.
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The plight of mainly Kurdish Kobani has unleashed the worst street violence in years in Turkey, which has 15 million Kurds of its own. Turkish Kurds have risen up since Tuesday against President Tayyip Erdogan's government, which they accuse of allowing their kin to be slaughtered.
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"We would like to appeal to the Turkish authorities ... to allow the flow of volunteers, at least, and their own equipment in order to be able to enter the city and contribute to a self-defense action," the U.N. envoy de Mistura said in Geneva.
Erdogan has already proven himself to be a corrupt politician, a misogynist and now an angel of death to the Kurds in Kobani.