Netanyahu: Turkey Cannot Lecture Most Moral Army

Netanyahu: Turkey Cannot Lecture Most Moral Army.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have began a war of words over the deadly clashes on Gaza border, said the BBC.

"The most moral army in the world will not be lectured on morality from someone who for years has been bombing civilians indiscriminately," Netanyahu said on Twitter apparently pointing out to the Turkish prolonged anti-Kurds operations in Turkey and Syria.

The statement comes after Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesman Ibrahim Kalin condemned Netanyahu's remarks, stating that “it is not possible to take seriously the allegations and accusations made by a mentality, which massacred thousands of Palestinians, turned the lands of the Palestinians into an open-air prison, in order to suppress its guilt," according to the Jerusalem Post.

Israeli soldiers on Friday killed sixteen Palestinian demonstrators.

"Hey Netanyahu! You are an occupier. And it is as an occupier that you are on those lands. At the same time, you are a terrorist," said Erdogan in a televised address on Sunday as cited by the BBC.