{"id":305950,"date":"2026-02-23T12:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T12:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/305950\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T12:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T12:24:10","slug":"turkish-ruling-party-official-says-israeli-threats-to-arab-sovereignty-are-illegitimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/305950\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish ruling party official says Israeli threats to Arab sovereignty are illegitimate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ankara, Feb. 23 (SANA) A spokesman for T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) said on Monday that any Israeli threat to the sovereignty of Arab countries was \u201cillegitimate,\u201d and warned that Israel\u2019s expansionist policy is a form of \u201cgenocide\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Anadolu Agency quoted AK Party spokesman \u00d6mer \u00c7elik as saying that Israel had \u201cno rights or sovereignty over the occupied Palestinian territories or any other Arab lands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00c7elik also criticized Israel\u2019s attempts to annex the West Bank or separate it from the Gaza Strip, describing such moves as a \u201cform of genocide\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn attempt to replace international law with fanatical religious claims will have serious consequences throughout the region,\u201d \u00c7elik said, adding that T\u00fcrkiye firmly rejects any approach that promotes Israeli dominance in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>His comments came in response to remarks by U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, who on Saturday expressed support for Israeli claims of a \u201cbiblical right\u201d extending from the Nile to the Euphrates. The remarks drew widespread Arab and Islamic condemnation.<\/p>\n<p>N.J<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ankara, Feb. 23 (SANA) A spokesman for T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) said on Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-305950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}