Turkish president slams Israel over Gaza offensive, urges global action
Recep Tayyip Erdogan accuses Israel of 'massacres,' criticizing silence of global community
Türkiye's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday strongly condemned Israel's military actions in Gaza, accused the Israeli government of committing indiscriminate massacres against Palestinians, and criticized the international community's silence.
“In a state of utter madness, the Israeli government is massacring Palestinians without any distinctions,” Erdogan said during a meeting of a group of parliaments in support of Palestine in Istanbul, Türkiye.
Journalists and children were being killed while “global media and human rights advocates stand by in silence," he added.
He criticized Western countries for what he described as double standards, saying: “In the slightest incident, they are quick to impose sanctions. But I ask, where are they against Israel?”
The president said nearly 60,000 Palestinians had been “brutally killed” since Oct. 7, 2023, most of them women and children, and warned that “any proposal that seeks to expel Palestinians from the land they have lived on for thousands of years holds no value for us.”
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Erdogan emphasized that the Palestinian cause was “a struggle for dignity” and a stand for “humanity, peace, and justice,” urging the society that suffered genocide 75 years ago to raise its voice and tell its leaders “enough.”
He accused those staying silent on the deaths in Gaza of attempting to “normalize genocide” by labeling the Palestinian resistance as "terrorism."
“Since Oct. 7, 2023, our brothers and sisters in Gaza and Palestine have been subjected to one of the greatest acts of banditry of the past century,” Erdogan added.
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