President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has threatened to intervene in Gaza while delivering a passionate speech during a pro-Palestine rally on Saturday.
He accused Israel of committing war crimes. Erdogan therefore threatened to declare war on the Jewish nation by deploying Turkish military into Gaza.
In the same speech, Erdogan said assaults on Gaza constituted a “massacre” warning that Turkey could “come at any night unexpectedly”.
Meanwhile, his comments have prompted Israel to withdraw its diplomatic presence. Israel says it’s recalling its diplomats and reevaluating relations with Turkey after comments by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a Palestine solidarity rally in Instanbul.
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The Turkish president also took a swipe at the west when he said “The main culprit behind the massacre unfolding in Gaza is the West. Israel has been openly committing war crimes for 22 days, but the Western leaders cannot even call on Israel for a ceasefire, let alone react to it,” Erdogan told the crowd, who were waving Palestinian flags.
“With this attitude, the West has accumulated a lot of sins.”
Erdogan compared Israel’s counteroffensive in Gaza to the Holocaust.
“In the past they were massacring the Jewish people in the gas chambers and they were indeed wiping out whole regions with bombs. A similar mentality is being shown in Gaza today,” he said.
“We will tell the whole world that Israel is a war criminal. We are making preparations for this. We will declare Israel a war criminal.”
“From now on, we will continue on our path with the motto that we may suddenly knock on your door one night,” he added.
The crowd enthusiastically responded with the chant, “Turkish military to Gaza.”
Erdogan defended Hamas jihadists as “freedom fighters” and accused Israel of illegally occupying Palestinian land.
