Accusing Western leaders of ‘unconditional assist’ to Israel, Turkish chief says his nation is not going to enable Center East borders to be redrawn ‘in blood’.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the “greatest impediment to regional peace” and that Israeli attacks on Iran proper earlier than a brand new spherical of nuclear talks with the USA aimed to sabotage the negotiations.
Addressing Arab League diplomats throughout a gathering of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Istanbul on Saturday, Erdogan urged nations with affect over Israel to not hearken to its “poison” and to hunt an answer to the fighting through dialogue with out permitting a wider battle.
Israeli assaults on Iran present that Netanyahu “and his authorities … don’t need any points or any issues to be solved diplomatically,” stated Erdogan.
“Netanyahu’s Zionist ambitions haven’t any different function than to pull our area and … the entire world into a giant catastrophe,” he added.
Erdogan accused the Western leaders of offering “unconditional assist” to Israel. He stated Turkiye wouldn’t enable borders within the Center East to be redrawn “in blood”.
“It is important for us to indicate extra solidarity to finish Israel’s banditry – not solely in Palestine but additionally in Syria, in Lebanon and in Iran,” he informed the OIC gathering.
The 57-member OIC, based in 1969, says its mission is to “safeguard and defend the pursuits of the Muslim world within the spirit of selling worldwide peace and concord”.
Talking earlier than Erdogan, Turkish Overseas Minister Hakan Fidan accused Israel of main the Center East in direction of “whole catastrophe” by attacking Iran.
“Israel is now main the area to the brink of whole catastrophe by attacking Iran, our neighbour,” he stated. “There isn’t any Palestinian, Lebanese, Syrian, Yemeni or Iranian downside however there’s clearly an Israeli downside.”
Al Jazeera’s Sinem Koseoglu, reporting from Istanbul, stated Turkiye as the present OIC chair sees itself well-placed in serving to to discover a decision to the Israel-Iran battle.
“It’s a NATO member nation positioned between the Western and Muslim worlds, and has sturdy bilateral relations with Iran, the Western world and the USA. And till a number of years in the past, it had sturdy relations with Israel,” she stated.
On Friday, Iranian Overseas Minister Abbas Araghchi stated his nation was solely ready to interact with the US if Israel stops its assaults on Iran.
“Iran is able to contemplate diplomacy as soon as once more and as soon as the aggression is stopped and the aggressor is held accountable for the crimes dedicated,” stated Araghchi.
“We assist the continuation of debate with [Britain, France, Germany and the EU] and specific our readiness to fulfill once more within the close to future.”
