Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar urged Ankara’s NATO allies to condemn the “explicit call for the erasure of Israel.”
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Friday accused his Turkish counterpart, Hakan Fidan, of incitement to genocide after the latter described Israel as “a burden humanity can no longer bear.”
Speaking in an interview with CNN Türk on Thursday, Fidan said Israel had become “a problem for the entire international community,” adding that “the Israeli authorities have become a burden that humanity can no longer bear.”
Fidan said Turkey had no intention of changing its position toward Israel and defended Ankara’s decision to halt trade with the Jewish state following the war against Hamas in Gaza.
“Israel is not only a problem for Turkey; it has become a problem for the entire world,” he said. He also claimed that anti-Israel sentiment was growing globally “because they are openly committing massacres” and accused Israel of seeking new enemies to divert attention from what he called its deteriorating international image.
