Erdogan: We will stand against Israel's efforts to ignite the region | News

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that his country will stand against Israel's efforts to ignite the entire region, stressing the continuation of efforts “to hold accountable the killers of children who committed genocide” in the Gaza Strip.

Erdogan made it clear – in a speech at the 23rd anniversary of the founding of his Justice and Development Party in the capital Ankara – that they will continue what he called their constructive, active and balanced stance in his country's foreign policy, saying, “We will stand against Israel's efforts to ignite fire in the region.”

The Turkish President pointed out that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will be a guest in Turkey and will deliver a speech before the General Assembly of the Parliament, saying, “The voice of the Palestinian people, who are struggling for freedom, will be heard by the world once again from the rostrum of our Parliament.”

Erdogan pointed out that they will show the world that Mahmoud Abbas has the right to deliver a speech in the Turkish parliament, just as the Israeli Prime Minister has the right to do so. Benjamin Netanyahu to give a speech in Congress American.

The Turkish President stressed that Ankara will continue its efforts until the child killers who committed genocide and shed the blood of more than 40,000 innocent people in Gaza are held accountable for their atrocities before the law.

Last week, Erdogan commented on Netanyahu's speech to Congress, saying, “The natural place for perpetrators of genocide is not the parliamentary podium, but the courtroom.”

He added that “those who applauded Netanyahu's lies”, whom he described again as “the Hitler of our time”, will not be able to remove what he called the black stain on their hands, before the controversy escalated between Turkey and Israel following Erdogan's statements in which he said that his country had intervened in Karabakh Libya can do the same thing in Israel.

Last Wednesday, Turkey filed a formal request to join the genocide lawsuit filed by South Africa against Israel at the International Court of Justice.

The head of the legal committee in the Turkish parliament, Cüneyt Yuksel, said that his country “will provide evidence of the ethnic cleansing and massacres committed by the Israeli army,” accusing Israel of using the weapon of starvation and thirst in Gaza.

This comes as the occupation army continues its war on Gaza since October 7, leaving tens of thousands of martyrs, wounded and missing, amid a humanitarian situation described as catastrophic and a worsening famine looming over the besieged Strip.