The Turkish government on Monday criticized Israeli Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz’s scandalous social media post threatening Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Katz, known for his anti-Turkish posts amid growing criticism from Turkey of the Israeli administration’s massacres in Gaza, compared Erdogan to ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkey could intervene in Israel to stop the killings. Katz’s post states that Erdogan followed in Saddam’s footsteps and that he should remember what happened in Iraq.
In response, the Turkish Foreign Ministry reminded Katz of the fate of Adolf Hitler, the “perpetrator of genocide.”
“Netanyahu, another perpetrator of genocide, will have the same fate. Those who try to destroy the Palestinians will be held accountable as the genocidal Nazis did. Humanity will stand with the Palestinians. You cannot destroy the Palestinians,” they said from Turkey.
Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said in a separate statement that Erdogan is the voice of humanity’s conscience.
“International Zionist circles, especially Israel, are in a hurry to suppress this righteous voice. History has the same consequences for all perpetrators of genocide and their supporters,” said Fidan.
Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz said in a social media post that the “insolent” statements of the Netanyahu administration, “which is on trial by the International Court of Justice on charges of genocide and war crimes,” are “null and void.”
“Humanity will win in the end, but today’s Hitlers and those with a Nazi mindset will meet the same end as they did in the past,” he said, Klix.ba writes.
E.Dz.
