Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accused the West of turning a blind eye to the suffering of the civilian population in the Gaza Strip during a visit to Ankara by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Gaza had been razed, he said. “Our German friends must see this tragic situation,” Erdoğan said on Wednesday in Ankara after a meeting with Steinmeier. The entire West stands by Israel, he added. The Turkish president also once again sharply criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and accused him of endangering the entire Middle East in order to ensure his political surviva…