Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Wednesday of committing “genocide” of the Kurdish people after the NATO leader likened Netanyahu to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

“They used to speak ill of Hitler. What difference do you have from Hitler? They are going to make us miss Hitler. Is what this Netanyahu is doing any less than what Hitler did? It is not,” Erdogan told reporters in Ankara, per Reuters.

“He is richer than Hitler, he gets the support from the West,” he added. “All sorts of support comes from the United States. And what did they do with all this support? They killed more than 20,000 Gazans.”

Erdogan, 69, has long railed against Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians and called on world leaders to stop the Jewish state’s war on the Hamas terror group following its Oct. 7 terror attack.

Netanyahu fired back on X, saying: “Erdogan, who is committing genocide against the Kurds and who holds the world record for imprisoning journalists who oppose his regime, is the last person who can preach morality to us.

“The IDF, which is the most moral army in the world, is fighting to eliminate the most abhorrent and brutal terrorist organization in the world, Hamas-ISIS, which has committed crimes against humanity, and which Erdogan has praised and whose leaders he hosts.”

Turkey’s population includes an estimated 15 million to 20 million Kurds, the majority of whom live in the east and southeast of the country.

The Turkish government has repeatedly crushed Kurdish rebellions since the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, and the pro-autonomy Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has been classified as a foreign terrorist organization by the State Department since 1997.

In 2019, then-President Donald Trump maneuvered to take US forces out of Syria, paving the way for Erdogan’s forces to attack Kurdish fighters there and sparking an international outcry.

As recently as this week, Ankara has carried out airstrikes against Kurdish fighters in Iraq and Syria.

Strife over the Kurds quickly emerged as a sticking point when Sweden and Finland sought entry into NATO following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Both nations imposed an arms embargo on Turkey after the 2019 attacks on the Kurds in Syria, which has since been lifted.

Turkey has also taken issue with Sweden harboring exiled members of the PKK, accusing the Stockholm government of supporting terrorism.

On Tuesday, the foreign affairs committee in Turkey’s parliament approved Sweden’s NATO bid, inching it closer to full membership.

Turkey has the largest military of any NATO member after the US, but has often been a thorn in the side of its Western peers.

Beyond the Kurds, Turkey has clashed with Greece, a fellow NATO member that has a history of conflict with Ankara dating back centuries.

There have also been human rights concerns raised about Erdogan’s domestic crackdown following a failed coup in 2016.