Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Tuesday accused the members of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government of wanting to provoke a regional war to stay in power.
Erdoğan who is calling for the government to be tried in international courts, stated that the terror and genocide Israel has carried out in Gaza has reached Lebanon.
He warned that if not stopped, the Israeli leadership would set its sights on Turkey.
Erdoğan condemned Israel’s ground operation in Lebanon and urged the United Nations and other international organizations to stop Israel without “wasting any more time,” AFP reports.
“Whatever it does, Israel will be stopped sooner or later. All state and international organizations, especially the UN, must stop Israel without wasting any more time,” Erdoğan told the Turkish parliament at the opening of the legislative year.
According to the report, the Israeli army said it had launched a ground offensive in Lebanon and that its forces engaged in clashes Tuesday, escalating the conflict after a week of intense airstrikes that killed hundreds.
“I openly say that the Israeli leadership, acting with the delirium of the promised land and with a purely religious fanaticism, will set its sights on our homeland after Palestine and Lebanon,” Erdoğan said, again comparing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Nazi Germany’s Adolf Hitler.
“Just as Hitler, who saw himself in a giant mirror, was stopped, Netanyahu will be stopped in the same way,” he said.
Dubbing him the “butcher of Gaza,” Erdoğan has accused Netanyahu of seeking to “spread the war” across the wider Middle East.
