President of Türkiye on Israel: “It's an increasingly cruel rogue state”

Published at: 06/08/2024 08:54 AM

The President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, announced that he will file an appeal to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, to join the lawsuit filed by South Africa against Israel for crimes of genocide.

After a cabinet meeting, Erdogan stated that a Turkish parliamentary legal delegation will participate in the judicial process against Israel opened by South Africa at the end of December last year in relation to acts “of a genocidal nature” committed in the Gaza Strip.

The president also stressed that previously the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Türkiye, Hakan Fidan, had already announced the decision to intervene in the lawsuit against the government of Benjamin Netanyahu before the International Court of Justice, which would make Ankara one of the key players in this process.

“We will do everything in our power to put an end to this Israeli barbarism, which claimed 40,000 lives of innocent people who were murdered in the last ten months,” he said, according to a quote from Russia Today (RT).

More than 16,000 minors have died since the beginning of the conflict on October 7. “Israel does not kill the inhabitants of Gaza only with bombs and bullets, but also leaving them without food or water,” the Turkish president stressed.

“There are no longer words to describe the genocide suffered by the Palestinian people in Gaza,” he concluded, insisting that Israel is a “rogue state that is becoming more cruel and pampered.”

Mazo News Team