The Turkish leader believes that Hamas militants are “defending their lands, honor and lives in defiance of the occupation policy.”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared that Israel is a “terrorist state” committing war crimes and violating international law in Gaza.
He spoke about this on Wednesday, November 15, in the Turkish parliament, Reuters reports.
Erdogan said Israel's military campaign against the Palestinian group Hamas in the Gaza Strip was one of the most “insidious attacks in human history” with “unlimited” support from the West.
“I openly say that Israel is a terrorist state. Others say that Hamas is a terrorist organization. Hamas participated in the elections and won them in Palestine,” the Turkish president said categorically.
According to him, the Hamas militants who attacked Israel on October 7 are “defending their lands, honor and lives in defiance of occupation policies” and are “resistance fighters.”
At the same time, Erdogan even called for Israeli leaders to be tried for war crimes at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
The Turkish President also called on the Israeli Prime Minister to admit that his country has nuclear weapons.
“Netanyahu… do you have a nuclear bomb or not? Open the answer if you dare. But you can't. We know that Israel has these bombs,” Baha quoted Erdogan as saying.
Let us recall that earlier, at a rally of thousands in Istanbul, Erdogan accused the West of supporting Israel and compared the fight against Hamas with a war between the Christian and Muslim worlds, saying that the fighting could become a new “confrontation of the cross and crescent.”
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