The conflict between Israel and Turkey explodes explicitly after the aggressive statements of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan against the Jewish state, which has gradually increasingly sided with Hamas, calling the militia members “liberators” and today using very sharp words Land invasion of Jerusalem’s troops. Erdogan said Turkey was working to officially declare Israel a “war crimes state” and expanded the accusations to include the West, branding it “mainly responsible for the massacre” in Gaza. Israel “put an end to this madness” and struck the blow. A verbal escalation that went so wrong with the Jewish state that Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen ordered the return of all diplomats from Turkey this afternoon, Saturday October 28, in order to “reassess” relations between the two countries.
Erdogan’s escalation
A few hours after the militia party’s attack in southern Israel on October 7, the Sultan said he was ready to mediate between the parties to reach an agreement on the release of the Israeli hostages and a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. But in a speech to the parliamentary group of his party (AKP) three days ago, the Turkish head of state – in clear and not even surprising words given his support of the organization classified as terrorist by the USA and the EU since 2011 – attacked Israel and defined it as his own military strategy on the Strip was “an atrocity” aimed at killing children. “We have no problems with the State of Israel, but we have never condoned the atrocities committed and its conduct, which is more like an organization than a state,” Erdogan said, ultimately canceling his state visit to Israel. Yesterday, the Turkish Foreign Minister also went a step further: “Those who remained silent in the face of Israel’s atrocities are complicit in this operation,” said Hakan Fidan at a joint press conference with his Danish counterpart Lars Lokke Rasmussen in Ankara. And concerns about the crisis between Israel and Palestine finally led Erdogan to call Pope Francis in recent days. The Turkish leader stressed to the Pope that “Israeli attacks against Gaza have reached the level of a massacre.” Citing the humanitarian aid that Ankara has provided to the people of the Gaza Strip, the Turkish president appealed to support Turkey’s efforts and also reiterated that “a lasting peace in the region where the holy places of the three monotheistic ones are located.” Religions will only be possible with the creation of an independent, sovereign and geographically integrated State of Palestine on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.”
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