Istanbul/Tel Aviv. The Turkish president sends threatening gestures to Israel. The local foreign minister promptly compared him to Saddam Hussein.
O Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan he has Israel threatened with military intervention. “Just as we entered Nagorno-Karabakh, just as we entered Libya, we will do the same to them,” he said Erdogan at an event held by his ruling AKP party in Rize on the Black Sea, overlooking Israel.
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He was referring to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, where Erdogan has supported the warring party, Azerbaijan, with drones, among other things. In civil war-torn Libya, Ankara supports the internationally recognized government military equipment it’s personal.
In his speech, Erdogan praised the progress in Turkish Defense Industry and he also said: “There is nothing we cannot do. We just have to be strong.”
Katz: “Erdogan is following in the footsteps of Saddam Hussein”
The Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz promptly replied: “Erdogan is following in Saddam’s footsteps Hussein and threatens to attack Israel. He should just remember what happened there and how it ended,” Katz wrote on Platform X late in the evening.
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