Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan announced that he was canceling all his plans to visit Israel and called Hamas “a group of liberators who protect their land and not a terrorist organization”.
Reacting to Israel’s attacks on Gaza, the Turkish president said: “The entire West has joined Israel and sees Hamas as a terrorist organization. Israel, the West may owe you a lot, but Turkey owes you nothing. Israel, you can’t go anywhere with this mentality”.
In his speech before his party’s parliamentary group, Erdogan continued to speak harshly against Israel:
“First we looked at the Palestinian issue from a human perspective. We defended human life. Since October 7, we have been making every effort to prevent the crisis from escalating. We sent 8 planes full of humanitarian aid to meet the needs of the people of Gaza. We sent 25 of our staff to Egypt to treat the wounded. We stated that we do not justify actions and attacks targeting civilians. Israel is carrying out one of the most violent attacks in history against the oppressed people of Gaza. Half of the dead are children, the other half are their mothers and family elders. This alone is enough to show that there was an atrocity. You cannot find another army that sets fire to hospitals, places of worship and markets and continues this inhuman act”.
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And he continued:
“Israel is killing children. We can never allow that. I said this to the then Prime Ministers in Davos, I said ‘you know very well how to kill’. I haven’t been to Davos since that day. I shook Netanyahu’s hand once in my life, in Turkevi in America. He abused our goodwill. We had a plan to go to Israel, but we canceled it. They abused our goodwill. Oh Israel, you can’t go anywhere with this mindset. Take either the US or the West with you. America will also lose. The whole point is to establish a just world. No one can sleep peacefully in a world where parents hold their children’s bodies. It also applies to any country where there is no barrier. It is time to speak about the plight of those who turned their backs on the truth with acts that cannot be compared to these massacres. Justifying attacks is the West’s legacy from its bloody history”.
