Erdogan’s statements on Gaza and the answer to the question “Israel’s right to exist” trigger the reaction

Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – Activists have released videos on social media of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz from Berlin on Friday.

Erdogan said, as reported by Turkey’s official Anatolia news agency: “So far Israel has killed 13,000 Palestinians, most of them children, women and elderly people, and destroyed everything there, and as a result there is almost no place left called Gaza”. of his attacks”.

In response to a German journalist’s question regarding “his acceptance of Israel’s right to exist and recent reasons for his description of a fascist state, his consideration of the Tel Aviv attacks as genocide, his description of Hamas as an of liberation and the impact of this on Turkish-German relations and cooperation within NATO”, Erdogan stressed that Turkey is one of the countries, the leader of the alliance and one of the five largest countries within it” , as reported by Anatolia.

He added: “Everyone in NATO stands with Ukraine, but we, as Turkey, meet Ukraine and Russia and make no distinction between them, and we are the ones who transported all that grain to Europe and Africa through the grain corridor… Has Israel killed thousands of Palestinians? Yes, it has. Has it destroyed hospitals and bombed homes? Cults and churches? Yes, they are being bombed. As a Muslim, this disturbs me, and as a Christian, you are disturbed by the ” Bomb churches? Why don’t you take a stand on all this? And for us at this stage there should be no discrimination between Jews, Christians and Muslims in the region.”

He went on to say: “What happened in Gaza demonstrated once again that the two-state solution based on the 1967 borders has now become inevitable, underlining that everyone’s priority is to reach a ceasefire and provide unhindered humanitarian aid . … if our hands, arms and tongues remain tied.” We cannot defend ourselves in the face of history, and we should not evaluate the Israeli-Palestinian war under the influence of the psychology of indebtedness. Has Israel killed thousands of Palestinians? Yes , “He did it. Does it bomb hospitals, places of worship and churches? Yes, it bombs. As a Muslim, this disturbs me. If we were in debt when we could speak so comfortably, but those who are in debt cannot speak comfortably.”