Published:
2 ago 2024 23:13 GMT
“Peace cannot be achieved by killing negotiators and threatening diplomats,” Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Oncu Keceli responded.
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz on Friday authorized officials from his Foreign Ministry to summon Turkey’s deputy ambassador to the Hebrew country. “for a severe reprimand”as the Turkish Embassy lowered its flag to half-mast as part of national mourning for Ismail Haniya, the slain Hamas leader.
“The State of Israel will not tolerate expressions of mourning for a murderer like Ismail Haniya, who led Hamas in committing the October 7 atrocities and prayed with his associates for wish the murderers success while watching the horrible images on television,” wrote the head of Israeli diplomacy on his X account.
The day before, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, advertisement that August 2 was declared a day of national mourning for the slain leader of the Palestinian movement.I remember with pity Ismail Haniya and all Palestinians deceased“On behalf of myself and my nation, I express my condolences to the Palestinian people,” the president said.
In this context, Katz said that if the employees of the Turkish representation wanted to mourn, “They should go to Türkiye and mourn with their master, Erdogan.which embraces the terrorist organization Hamas and supports its acts of murder and terror.”
“Let’s hope for better days”
Hours later, the chancellor made a second publicationin which he claimed that Erdogan turns his country into a “dictatorship” because of his Support for “murderers and rapists”. “Erdogan is taking a Turkish state with scientific, cultural, technological and economic capabilities, and destroying it, eroding the legacy of [Kemal] Ataturk, who built a progressive and prosperous Turkey. Let us hope for better days,” Katz tweeted.
.@RTErdogan is turning Turkey into a dictatorship just because of his support for the murderers and rapists of Hamas, against the stance of the entire free world.He is blocking Instagram, with 57 million users in Turkey, cutting off sports broadcasts because an Israeli athlete… pic.twitter.com/5dpEhELf0C
— Israel Katz (@Israel_katz) August 2, 2024
For his part, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, answered to his Israeli counterpart, describing as “a state of illness” the fact that Katz constantly subjects Turkey and Erdogan himself “to his personal delusions” instead of fulfilling his duties as foreign minister. “This person, whose presence in the cabinet consists of an obsession with slander and liesis the monument to the impudence and shamelessness of the genocidal Government of [primer ministro israelí, Benjamín] Netanyahu”, affirmed Fidan.
Also the spokesman of the Turkish diplomatic body, Oncu Keceli, commented Israel Katz’s statements against Türkiye.Peace cannot be achieved by killing negotiators and threatening diplomats,” he wrote in a post.
