Erdoğan: Hamas is Not a Terrorist Organization
AKP Chairman and Turkish President Erdoğan said, "Hamas is not a terrorist organization, but a group of liberation and mujahideen who struggle to protect their lands and citizens."
Erdogan also announced that he canceled his project to go to Israel.
Speaking at his party’s group meeting in the Turkish Grand National Assembly, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said, regarding Israel’s attacks on Gaza, “We have no problem with the State of Israel, but we have never approved the atrocities carried out by Israel and its style of acting as an organization rather than a state, and we will not.” .
Reminding that almost half of those who died in the attacks on Gaza were children, Erdoğan said, “Even this table shows that the aim is deliberate brutality to commit crimes against humanity. “Israel’s attacks on Gaza are a sign of both murder and mental illness, both for those who carry them out and for those who support them,” he said.
“Hamas is not a terrorist organization”
President Erdoğan said, “Hamas is not a terrorist organization, but a group of liberation and mujahideen that struggles to protect its lands and citizens.”
“We had a project to go to Israel, it was cancelled, we will not go. When the powers that they rely on today are gone tomorrow, the first place that the Israeli people will look for trust and mercy will be Turkey, just like 500 years ago.
I invite all other countries with reason and conscience to put pressure on the Netanyahu government to return the state of Israel to sanity. At least this time, we expect an event worthy of its mission from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, whose founding purpose was to defend the privacy of Jerusalem and the Palestinian cause. We are ready to be one of the guarantors of the Palestinian side with our humanitarian, political and military presence. We invite countries with the will to consider our offer. We recommend organizing an ‘International Palestine-Israel Peace Conference’ in which all influential actors in the region will participate. No one takes seriously a structure that disregards the brutal killing of children. “We are deeply saddened by this image of impotence that the UN has fallen into.”
