2023-10-25 15:26:37
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced this Wednesday that he was abandoning all his plans to travel to Israel. He also stigmatizes the inability of the West to stop the war in Gaza. “We had plans to go to Israel, but it was canceled. We will not go,” declared before Parliament the head of state, who met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the first time in September, in New York (United States).
“I shook this man’s hand, we had good intentions. But he abused us,” he continued in a virulent speech, in front of fiery deputies, who chanted “Down with Israel” and “Allah Akbar!” ” (God is big). “Relations could have been different but that will no longer happen, unfortunately,” added the Turkish president.
“You will not find any other state whose army behaves with such inhumanity,” he continued regarding the bombing carried out by Israel in Gaza in retaliation for the bloody Hamas attack on October 7 that killed 1 400 dead according to the Israelis. Israeli reprisals in Gaza have caused the deaths of 5,791 people, according to Hamas.
Erdogan also considered that the Palestinian group is not a terrorist organization and that its members constitute a “group of liberators who protect their land”. The head of state also attacked “the Western powers (who) shed tears for Israel and do nothing else”, stigmatizing their “inability to stop Israel”.
Western “hypocrisy”
“That those who mobilized the world in favor of Ukraine did not speak out against the massacres in Gaza is the most blatant sign of their hypocrisy,” he stressed. “As long as innocent people continue to die in Gaza, no ship or plane sent to our region will bring peace.”
The Turkish president called for the founding of an “independent Palestine” and a conference between Israel and the Palestinians, proposing that Turkey act as a “guarantor” of any future agreement.
Tuesday evening, Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the United Nations (UN) Security Council of having “aggravated the crisis” in the Gaza Strip through its “biased” attitude and of causing “the worst damage” to the reputation of the Gaza Strip. ‘UN. He accuses him of being “unable to ensure a ceasefire as quickly as possible and to take measures to avoid civilian casualties”.
After calling for restraint in the days following the massacre of Israelis perpetrated by Hamas and the Israeli response in the Gaza Strip, the Turkish president changed his tone and denounced a “genocide” after the strike, the week last, on a hospital in Gaza which he immediately attributed to Israel, without ever returning to it.
At the head of a predominantly Muslim country favorable to the Palestinian cause, of which he has always presented himself as the defender, Erdogan planned to join the rally organized by his Islamo-conservative party, the AKP, on Saturday “in support for Palestine.
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