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Turkish president says he wants to ‘send Netanyahu to Allah’

Israel Katz responds: ‘There is no God who will pay attention to these who assist the atrocities and crimes versus humanity committed by your barbaric Hamas buddies.’

By Ben Cohen, The Algemeiner

Turkeys overseas ministry issued a furious condemnation of Israel on Friday as it responded to a dressing-down of Ankaras ambassador in Tel Aviv by Israeli Overseas Minister Israel Katz.

Katz experienced summoned the Turkish envoy, akir zkan Torunlar, to lodge a protest in opposition to an election rally speech by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday in which he threatened to deliver [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu to Allah to acquire care of him, make him miserable and curse him.

Erdogans most up-to-date salvo in opposition to Netanyahu was one particular extra case in point of his ever more inflammatory denunciations of Israel due to the fact the Hamas massacre of Oct. 7.

Erdogan has nonetheless to condemn the slaughter, during which more than 1,200 people today were murdered and in excess of 200 taken hostage amid atrocities that included mass rape, even though consistently aiming barbs at Israel amid them the assertion that Netanyahu is worse than Hitler.

He has also lauded Hamas terrorists as independence fighters, declaring before this thirty day period that Turkey is a country that speaks openly with Hamas leaders and firmly backs them.

In a write-up on X/Twitter adhering to his assembly with Torunlar, Katz pulled no punches.

Referring to Erdogans significant assault on Primary Minister Netanyahu and his threats to send out PM Netanyahu to Allah, Katz declared: You who assist the burning of toddlers, murderers, rapists and the mutilation of corpses by Hamas criminals, [are] the final one particular who can communicate about God. There is no God who will hear to those who assistance the atrocities and crimes from humanity committed by your barbaric Hamas close friends.

Katz then exhorted: Be tranquil and shame on you!

In its reply to Katz, the Turkish foreign ministry turned down the criticism totally, suggesting in the opening sentence of its assertion that Israel has been developed upon occupied Palestinian land because its creation.

Due to the fact the initial day they occupied Palestinian lands, the Israeli authorities have designed a good effort to keep the major crimes they fully commited towards the Palestinians top secret, and have tried out to produce an armor of immunity for on their own, the statement claimed. They have qualified our President, who screams the reality.

The assertion went to accuse Israel of committing genocide in its latest war from Hamas terrorists in Gaza, saying that the overall world community viewpoint is eagerly awaiting the working day when Israeli officers who committed crimes will be brought to justice.

Erdogans attack on Netanyahu came in the very same 7 days that he threatened to intensify Turkish army operations in opposition to Kurdish fighters throughout the border in Iraq, pledging to make a stability corridor that would give new nightmares to those people who believe that they will deliver Turkey to its knees with a Terroristan along its southern borders.

A person Kurdish opposition politician highlighted Erdogans equation of the Kurdish people today who selection 25 million and have been continually denied the correct of nationwide self-resolve with terrorism with alarm.

Erdogans coverage through the election campaign is as follows: he conducts his campaign making use of the phrase and principle terroristan for Kurds and the region where by the Kurdish persons dwell, Tulay Hatimogullari, co-chair of the Peoples Equality and Democracy Social gathering, noticed in a speech previously this week to mark the Kurdish New Calendar year.

The geography exactly where the Kurdish persons stay, the geography in which peoples stay, is not terroristan, it is Kurdistan, she additional.

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