Erdoğan warns Israel won't stop, calls for Islamic alliance

from Daily Sabah

One of the few outspoken critics of Israel's aggression targeting Palestinians, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sought to mobilize the Islamic world again to halt what Türkiye calls Israel's war crimes and genocidal attempts against the people of Gaza and beyond. The conflict, underway since October 2023, has claimed the lives of more than 40,000 people in the Gaza Strip and other Palestinian territories, mostly women and children, and injured thousands of others.

Addressing an event on Saturday in the northwestern province of Kocaeli, Erdoğan said Muslim countries should form an alliance against the escalating threat of expansionism of the Netanyahu administration of Israel. "The only step that will stop Israeli arrogance, Israeli banditry and Israeli state terrorism is the alliance of Islamic countries," Erdoğan said.

Türkiye has sought to improve and resume ties with Egypt and the Bashar Assad regime of Syria. Erdoğan also said one of the factors in normalizing ties is "to form a line of solidarity against the growing threat of expansionism" that also threatened Lebanon and Syria. His remarks came a few days after he hosted Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in Ankara, the first visit by the Egyptian leader to Türkiye in 12 years...

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