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When Switzerland, Luxemburg, Israel and Turkey vote together against you, it is time to re-think your strategy.

Turkiye’s president on Wednesday strongly rejected any moves resembling "a witch-hunt” against the Russian people, arts, scholars, or artists.

"Just as we would not abandon Ukraine, we also do not accept actions akin to a witch-hunt against the Russian people, literature, students or artists," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his Justice and Development (AK) Party's parliamentary group.

Citing Germany's Munich Philharmonic firing a Russian conductor over his support for Russian President Vladimir Putin, Erdogan said such "fascist practices" cast a shadow over Ukraine's "legitimate struggle" in resisting Russian troops by fueling a "climate of hatred and grudges and sowing new grievances."