ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan stated on Saturday Islamic nations ought to type an alliance in opposition to what he known as “the rising menace of expansionism” from Israel, drawing a rebuke from the Israeli international minister.
He made the remark after describing what Palestinian and Turkish officers stated was the killing by Israeli troops of a Turkish-American lady participating in a protest on Friday in opposition to settlement enlargement within the Israeli-occupied West Financial institution.
“The one step that may cease Israeli vanity, Israeli banditry, and Israeli state terrorism is the alliance of Islamic nations,” Erdogan stated at an Islamic colleges’ affiliation occasion close to Istanbul.
He stated latest steps that Turkey has taken to enhance ties with Egypt and Syria are aimed toward “forming a line of solidarity in opposition to the rising menace of expansionism,” which he stated additionally threatened Lebanon and Syria.
Israeli Overseas Minister Israel Katz stated in an announcement that Erdogan’s comment was “a harmful lie and incitement,” and that the Turkish chief has been working for years with Iran to undermine the area’s average Arab regimes.
Erdogan hosted Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Ankara this week they usually mentioned the Gaza warfare and methods to additional restore their long-frozen ties throughout what was the primary such presidential go to in 12 years.
Ties between them began thawing in 2020 when Turkey started diplomatic efforts to ease tensions with estranged regional rivals, together with the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
Erdogan stated in July that Turkey would lengthen an invite to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad “any time” for attainable talks to revive relations between the 2 neighbours, who severed ties in 2011 after the outbreak of the Syrian civil warfare.
Israel’s army stated after Friday’s incident that it was wanting into studies {that a} feminine international nationwide “was killed on account of pictures fired within the space. The main points of the incident and the circumstances wherein she was hit are underneath evaluation.”
There was no instant touch upon Friday’s incident fromIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s workplace.
(Reporting by Daren Butler, Modifying by Timothy Heritage)
