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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: "Erdogan – the occupier of northern Cyprus, whose army massacres women and children in Kurdish villages, inside and outside Turkey – should not preach to Israel."
Erdogan – the occupier of northern Cyprus, whose army massacres women and children in Kurdish villages, inside and outside Turkey – should not preach to Israel.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday said the Turkish state should not preach to Israel while Ankara continues to “massacre” Kurds inside and outside of Turkey.
“Erdogan – the occupier of northern Cyprus, whose army massacres women and children in Kurdish villages, inside and outside Turkey – should not preach to Israel,” Netanyahu said on Twitter in a response to Turkish criticism.
Erdogan – the occupier of northern Cyprus, whose army massacres women and children in Kurdish villages, inside and outside Turkey – should not preach to Israel.
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This was not the first time the Israeli leader lashed out at Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The two have exchanged accusations in the past over Palestinian and Kurdish civilians killed by the two countries respective armies.
“The most moral army in the world will not be lectured by those who have indiscriminately bombed civilian populations for years,” Netanyahu said in April, seemingly referring to Ankara’s decades-long military campaign against Kurds in Turkey and now those in Syria.
“Apparently, this is how April Fool’s Day is celebrated in Ankara,” a statement by the Israeli PM’s office on Facebook read in April.
In response, Erdogan called Netanyahu “a terrorist.”
Meanwhile, some Kurds believe Israel should begin to offer real support on the ground instead of releasing statements sympathizing with them.
“If Netanyahu really believes what he says, then he should act. Enough words, Kurds are tired of empty words,” Diliman Abdulkader, the Director of the Kurdistan Project at the Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET), told Kurdistan 24.
“If Netanyahu believes Erdogan is such an evil leader whose army massacres women and children in Kurdish villages, inside and outside Turkey, then arm the Kurds and protect them with your brand-new F-35s,” he added.
In January 2018, Turkey backed the Islamist-dominated Free Syrian Army (FSA) to stage an invasion of the Afrin region in Syrian Kurdistan, killing up to 280 civilians, wounding hundreds of others, and leading to the displacement of some 200,000 people.
Kurds now fear that the same could happen in other towns in the east of the Euphrates after US President Donald Trump seemed to have reached a deal with his Turkish counterpart.
On Saturday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Trump had announced the withdrawal from Syria, after mentioning the decision to Erdogan in a phone call, Turkish state news agency Anadolu reported.
Cavusoglu added that there were three joint working groups between Turkey and the US that would meet on Jan. 8, 2019.
....going to be there for three months, and that was seven years ago - we never left. When I became President, ISIS was going wild. Now ISIS is largely defeated and other local countries, including Turkey, should be able to easily take care of whatever remains. We’re coming home!
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“Now ISIS is largely defeated and other local countries, including Turkey, should be able to easily take care of whatever remains. We’re coming home!” President Trump tweeted on Saturday.
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