{"id":488413,"date":"2026-06-12T00:25:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T00:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/488413\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T00:25:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T00:25:16","slug":"erdogan-sees-israel-as-a-threat-to-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/488413\/","title":{"rendered":"Erdo\u011fan sees Israel as a threat to Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan said on Wednesday in an address to his Islamic-conservative ruling AKP party that Israel&#8217;s actions in the region were also a threat to Turkey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Israel&#8217;s attacks on Lebanon and Syria had reached a scale that also threatened his country, Erdo\u011fan said in Ankara. He also accused Israel of pursuing destabilizing policies across the region including in the eastern Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Erdo\u011fan has sharply criticized Israel and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the past. Relations between the two countries are considered strained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Israel continues to carry out daily attacks in Lebanon despite a ceasefire. The destruction is extensive, particularly in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Israeli military is also continuing ground operations in Syria, particularly in the south of the country near the border with the Golan Heights controlled by Israel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Israel justifies the actions by citing the fight against the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia and other groups it classifies as a threat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Netanyahu, in turn, has said that Erdo\u011fan is &#8220;the last person who could deliver moral lectures to the State of Israel. &#8221; He has accused Erdo\u011fan of supporting Hamas, oppressing his own people and jailing political rivals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NATO member Turkey, which once had close ties with Israel, is a staunch critic of Israel&#8217;s attacks on Iran, Gaza and Lebanon. Erdo\u011fan also described Israel as a threat &#8220;to humanity.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan said on Wednesday in an address to his Islamic-conservative ruling AKP party that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4420,85,46,43,225751,26719],"class_list":["post-488413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-friedrich-merz","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-president-of-turkey","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488413","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=488413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}