Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed Israel was acting like an “organisation” and not a state as he warned that “Israel must not forget that if it behaves as an organization and not as a state, it will end up being treated as an organization”, addressing a party rally.
Erdogan went on to accuse Israel of adopting shameful methods, noting that such practices “are not war but slaughter” in reference to Israel’s blockade of Gaza.
“A conflict carried out by cutting off water, electricity, entrances and exits of a city, destroying its infrastructure, destroying all places of worship from mosques to churches, destroying schools, preventing people from accessing the most basic humanitarian needs, destroying buildings in which civilians live with bombs, in short, using all kinds of shameful methods, is not war but a massacre,” he said.
The Turkish President continued by saying that his country would continue to intensify its military operations against Kurdish PKK militants in Syria and Iraq.
“We have already intensified our air operations and we will continue and show the terrorists that we can wipe them out in any place and at any time,” said the Turkish president, who has launched a series of bombing raids since Oct. 1 in retaliation for an attack that wounded two police officers in Ankara. The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) claimed responsibility for the attack.
Erdogan had said on Monday night that Turkey had “successfully completed” the “first phase” of its bombing campaign and had hinted that Ankara would continue to “conduct” operations” in northern Syria and Iraq.
