Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday called on Israel to immediately end “operations that amount to genocide” in its war against the Islamist movement Hamas in Gaza.
“I reiterate my call to the Israeli leadership not to in any way increase the scale of attacks against civilians and to immediately end operations that constitute genocide,” Erdogan wrote on the X network, formerly Twitter.
“It is clear that killing children, women and civilians, bombing hospitals, schools, mosques and churches does not bring security,” he added, calling on the entire international community to act to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza as soon as possible.
Erdogan accused the Israeli government of acting “like a [terrorista]provoking extra-regional actors, instead of acting in accordance with reason of State”.
“Our region must be saved as soon as possible from this crazy frenzy that Western countries support, while the Western press tries to legitimize it,” he wrote.
The Turkish president concluded by proposing “new mechanisms to guarantee the security of Muslims, Jews, Christians and all those who live in these lands” and promised that Turkey will continue to do everything in its power to achieve this.
Turkey is a historic ally of Israel, although relations were strained after ten Turkish activists were killed in the Israeli attack on a humanitarian aid fleet trying to reach Gaza in 2010, but last year the two countries reestablished relations with full diplomacy. .
Erdogan’s government has often been close to Hamas, but has always sought a mediating role in the Palestinian conflict and has affirmed its commitment to a two-state solution.
Source: TSF
