Turkish prime minister Erdogan slams Israel, Syria and the UN continuously and all on one day, keynotes Israel is a threat for the region because it has nuclear weapons.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan fiercely criticised Israel and Syria, calling Israel a nuclear threat and threatening Syria with unilateral sanctions, despite the failure of the U.N. Security Council to adopt a stance against its southern neighbor. Erdoğan’s statements came on the same day Turkey’s military forces conducted a cross-border operation into Iraq and defended its move to deploy early warning radar system against Iranian nuclear capabilities.

Turkey : Israel commits state terrorism

“Right now, I see Israel as a threat for its Middle East region because Israel has access to atomic bomb,” Turkish PM Erdoğan stated in a foreign policy speech during an official visit to South Africa. The prime minister also accused Israel of committing “state terrorism.”

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s remarks came in response to comments from an Israeli Embassy diplomat in South Africa who blamed the radical Islamic organization Hamas for launching rockets into Israeli territory and criticized Turkey for downgrading diplomatic relations with Israel.

“Your question opened my way for a reply. One cannot transfer atomic bombs and phosphorus bombs through tunnels linking Egypt to Gaza,” Erdoğan said. “Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed by bombs that have rained down on them from Israel.” Erdoğan continued his slamming: “You sleep at night peacefully and secure,” he told the Israeli diplomat to applause by South African foreign affairs officials and members of the diplomatic corps. “Yet Palestinians can’t find a single trace of peace in Palestine.”

New sanctions to Syria on the way

Erdoğan also accused Israel of attacking the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, as well as U.N. buildings in Gaza with phosphorus bombs, calling Israel ”committing state terrorism”. Erdoğan also repeated that Turkey would impose sanctions on Syria, making it clear that the U.N. Security Council could not block Turkey’s move. “It won’t stop our sanctions,” Erdoğan said. “Turkey and either some or all of the EU nations, and who knows which others, will take steps. “The people of that country do not need to endure a merciless, shameless, tyrannical regime that bombs its own country from the sea,” he said. Also on Wednesday, the Turkish military began a week-long military exercise near its border with Syria. Erdoğan is expected to announce new sanctions on Syria later this week when he visits refugee camps near the border.

Israel is a nuclear threat for Middle East : Secret Agenda afoot?

But Turkey’s Prime Minister’s attack on Israel’s nuclear capacity will be viewed differently, with officials fearing that Turkey could now become the champion of an Arab campaign to force Israel to open its Dimona reactor to UN inspectors. Secret Turkish diplomatic deeds leaked by the Israeli press last month contained a threat by Tayyip Erdogan to work against Israel in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). By claiming that he saw “Israel as a threat for Middle East because it has the atomic bomb”, Pm Erdogan could be hinting at the start of just such a campaign.