President of Türkiye accused Israel of dragging the world into disaster

Published at: 21/06/2025 09:40 AM

The president of Türkiye, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, accused the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, of trying to “drag the world into disaster, like Hitler 90 years ago”.

Erdogan emphasized that, just like “Hitler, 90 years ago, set fire to the world by casting a spark,” and argued that Netanyahu's “Zionist dreams have no other purpose than to drag the world into disaster.”

According to a Telesur report, the Turkish President suggested that Netanyahu and his “murderous network” do not want any issue to be resolved through diplomatic channels, seeking instead to extend the war to the entire region.

According to Erdogan, the Israeli Government is the “biggest obstacle to peace in the region”, a statement supported by Israel's attacks on Iran that began on June 13, as well as its actions in Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen and Syria.

The Turkish leader pointed out that the lives of two million people in Gaza, who have been fighting for their survival for 21 months, is even “worse than that of the Nazi concentration camps”.

In this context, he recalled that more than 55,000 people, of whom more than 65 percent are children and women, have been martyred in the Israeli attacks on Gaza, and 128,000 Palestinians have been injured.

Both Erdogan and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan strongly condemned Israel's attacks on Iran, which occurred while Tehran's nuclear negotiations with the United States continued.

Erdogan described these attacks, along with those in Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen and Syria, as “acts of banditry” and defended Iran's right to self-defense as “legitimate and legal”.

Türkiye, Erdogan added, “will not allow a new Sykes-Picot line to be drawn in blood in the region”, referring to the Anglo-French agreement of 1916 that preconfigured the current borders in the Middle East.

Faced with the escalation of the situation, Erdogan urged greater unity of Islamic countries to increase pressure on Israel, end the current war and facilitate a two-state solution, with a Palestinian state neighboring Israel on the 1967 borders and East Jerusalem as its capital.

Mazo News Team