Thursday, May 23, 2024

Israel committing biggest genocide of century in Gaza: Erdoğan

from Daily Sabah

 President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan speaks at an awards ceremony in Ankara, May 22, 2024. (AA Photo)

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan criticized Israel for committing what he said the "biggest genocide of the century" in Gaza with weapons and diplomatic support of countries that have been lecturing others about human rights and international law.

Speaking at the International Benevolence Awards ceremony in the capital Ankara, Erdoğan said countries that have been providing logistics and military support to Israel are complicit in the blood shed by Israel.

"Israeli forces have turned Gaza, which was already an open-air prison due to the blockade, into a children's cemetery in the past 229 days," Erdoğan said.

He also said that as long as Western powers continue to stand behind Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu despite all "his arrogance and recklessness," massacres in Palestine cannot be prevented.

The Turkish leader warned that if Zionist expansionism continues like this the world is "prone to new conflicts."

"Israel has lost this war and been condemned in the eyes of humanity," he further added...

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