from Daily Sabah
Türkiye is considering a separate appeal to an international court it applied to hold Israel accountable for what it did in Gaza and presented new evidence over Israel’s “genocide” targeting women and children in particular.
With the number of people slaughtered in Israel’s attacks exceeding 38,000 since October 2023, Türkiye aims to take new steps to stop the crisis in Gaza and the Netanyahu administration behind it. The country presented five folders of evidence to the International Criminal Court (ICC) where countries appealed to issue an arrest warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. Two folders exclusively contain evidence of genocide against women and children.
Istanbul’s Second Bar Association has recently joined institutions applying to the ICC over Israel’s war crimes. A delegation from the association recently held talks with ICC prosecutors in The Hague. Emrah Karayel, a lawmaker from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) who joined the delegation as a lawyer himself, says they told the prosecutors that the scope of the case should be expanded. “More people in Israel’s war cabinet should be added to the case apart from Netanyahu and Gallant,” he says. “They told us more (defendants) can be added based on evidence and information.”...
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