Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared on Wednesday that Israel is not behaving “like a state” in the Gaza Strip, where the bloody conflict with the Islamist group Hamas is taking place.
The statement comes after new attacks launched today by the Israeli army in response to the attack by the Palestinian group Hamas.
“Israel must not forget that if it acts as an organization and not as a state, it will ultimately be treated as such,” Turkey’s head of state declared, denouncing the Israeli army’s “shameful methods” with “ the indiscriminate mass murder of innocent people in Gaza, who are continuously bombed’.
For Erdogan, “bombing civilian sites, killing civilians, blocking humanitarian aid” is a reflection of an organization and not a state.
Turkey’s president normally uses the term “organization” to describe the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which Ankara and its Western allies classify as terrorist.
Erdogan also denounced the “killings of civilians on Israeli soil.”
“We believe that war should be ethical and that both sides should respect it. Unfortunately, this principle is being seriously violated in Israel and Gaza,” he said.
Source: DN
