ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has known as for an alliance of Islamic nations to cease “Israeli vanity, Israeli banditry, and Israeli state terrorism,” Israel-based i24 Information reported. Erdogan made the remarks after Palestinian and Turkish officers mentioned {that a} Turkish-American girl participating in a protest on Friday towards settlement enlargement within the West Financial institution was killed by Israeli troops.
Talking at an Islamic faculties’ affiliation occasion close to Istanbul, Erdogan mentioned, “The one step that may cease Israeli vanity, Israeli banditry, and Israeli state terrorism is the alliance of Islamic international locations,” i24 Information reported. He acknowledged Turkiye’s latest steps to enhance relations with Egypt and Syria have been taken at “forming a line of solidarity towards the rising risk of expansionism,” which he burdened additionally threatened Lebanon and Syria, in accordance with i24 Information report.
In response to Erdogan’s requires an alliance of Islamic nations to cease Israel, Israeli Overseas Minister Israel Katz mentioned that the Turkish President continues to throw the folks of his nation into fireplace of hatred and violence for the “sake of his Hamas buddies.” Katz known as Erdogan’s claims that Israel desires to overcome international locations within the area a “harmful lie and incitement.” He acknowledged that Israel is defending its borders and residents from Hamas and the “Shiite axis of evil led by Iran.”
In a put up on X, Israel Katz acknowledged, “@RTErdogan continues to throw the Turkish folks into the hearth of hatred and violence for the sake of his Hamas buddies. In the present day, he calls on Islamic nations to type an alliance towards Israel, claiming ‘Israel desires to overcome international locations within the area, together with Turkey.’ This can be a harmful lie and incitement.”
“Israel is defending its borders and residents from the murderers and rapists of Hamas, and from the Shiite axis of evil led by Iran. Erdogan and the Muslim Brotherhood alliance have been working for years alongside Iran to undermine reasonable Arab regimes within the Center East. Erdogan ought to be silent and ashamed,” he added.
Earlier in August, the Turkish Ministry of Overseas Affairs condemned the killing of Hamas Political Bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh in an assault in Tehran and provided condolences to the Palestinian folks. In an announcement launched on X, the Turkish Ministry of Overseas Affairs acknowledged, “We condemn the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, Chief of the Hamas Political Bureau, in a heinous assault in Tehran.”
“We specific our condolences to the Palestinian folks, tons of of hundreds of whom, like Haniyeh, have been martyred with the intention to reside peacefully of their homeland beneath the roof of their very own state,” it added. It accused the Israeli authorities of missing intention to attain peace. It mentioned that the assault was aimed toward spreading battle in Gaza to a regional degree. It additional mentioned that Turkey will proceed to assist the “simply trigger” of the Palestinian folks.
In an announcement, the Turkish Ministry of Overseas Affairs mentioned, “The Netanyahu authorities’s lack of intention to attain peace has been demonstrated as soon as once more. This assault can also be aimed toward spreading the battle in Gaza to a regional degree. If the worldwide group doesn’t act to cease Israel, our area will face a fair better battle.”
The Turkish Ministry of Overseas Affairs’ assertion got here after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) mentioned that Ismail Haniyeh had been killed in an assault in Iran’s capital, Tehran, in accordance with Press TV report. The IRGC mentioned that Haniyeh and one in all his bodyguards had been killed when their home was hit in Tehran.
