Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a populist who has lost the support of the Jewish people.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Benjamin Netanyahu is a populist. According to the Turkish president, the Israeli prime minister has lost the support of the Jewish people.
“Netanyahu is a man who has lost the support of his citizens, who has attracted the backlash of the Israeli people as well. He wants to find support for his massacres by quoting Torah and using religious terms. What this man is doing is pure PR work, a populist approach,” the Turkish leader stated on the plane on his return from Astana.
The Turkish president said the Israeli administration “systematically usurps the homes, streets, workplaces and living space of Palestinians.” According to the civil servant, documents are signed that do not give them the right to live. The politician said that in the West “a history of double standards, unprincipledness and lawlessness is being written.”
In addition, the Turkish official said he did not consider Netanyahu “his interlocutor.” However, the Turkish president noted that the head of the National Intelligence Organisation, Ibrahim Kalın, continues to maintain ties with Israel, as well as with Palestine and the Palestinian Hamas movement.
“At the moment I have no contacts (with Israel. – ed.). <…> I will say this: Netanyahu is no longer an interlocutor for us in any sense. We have crossed him out,” the Turkish president said.
The Turkish leader emphasised that in the modern world it is impossible to completely break off contacts, especially in international diplomacy.
“That is why I and Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, the head of the National Intelligence Organisation Ibrahim Kalın and my ministerial colleagues and I are using all means of diplomacy, we will continue to do so. Our main goal is to establish final peace in the Israeli-Palestinian problem,” Erdogan summarised.
Recall, earlier Turkish President Recep Erdogan suggested that the conflict in the Middle East will end with the defeat of Israel and the United States, as they, in the words of the Turkish leader, “oppose justice”. At the same time, the justification of attacks is a “legacy of the West’s bloody history”.