Israël veut faire de la Turquie son "nouvel ennemi", accuse Ankara
After Iran, Israel wants to make Turkey its "new enemy," Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan accused on Monday, following a series of acrimonious exchanges over the weekend.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday accused President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of "appeasing the Iranian terrorist regime while massacring his own Kurdish citizens".
"Israel cannot do without an enemy: it always needs to develop rhetoric and we see that not only the Netanyahu government, but also some members of the opposition (...), are trying to designate Turkey as a new enemy," denounced Mr. Fidan.
"This is a new phenomenon in Israel, born out of necessity in the face of street protests and which has subsequently turned into a state strategy," the minister added during a live interview with the state news agency Anadolu.
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz on Saturday described Turkey as a "paper tiger that has not reacted to the missile fire launched by Iran into Turkish territory".
Mr. Katz was reacting in particular to a series of symbolic indictments announced by the Istanbul prosecutor for "crimes against humanity", "genocide", "deprivation of liberty" and "looting" among other things.
The proceedings target thirty-five Israeli officials, including Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Katz and the Minister of National Security, Itamar Bengvir, for the seizure off the coast of Gaza last summer of the "Freedom Flotilla" which was planning to deliver aid to the Palestinian territory.
Burhanettin Duran, director of communications for the Turkish presidency, stated in a press release that Mr. Netanyahu is a "wrongful criminal" who is "dragging the region into chaos and conflict as a political survival strategy."
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