{"id":514838,"date":"2026-06-28T08:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T08:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/514838\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T08:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T08:45:10","slug":"erdogan-struggle-against-genocidal-occupying-expansionist-zionism-is-struggle-for-our-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/514838\/","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan: Struggle Against &#8216;genocidal, Occupying, Expansionist&#8217; Zionism Is Struggle For &#8216;our Survival&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday accused Zionism of threatening Turkey\u2019s survival, in the latest broadside by the Turkish leader since the start of the Gaza war on October 7, 2023. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">\u201cThe genocidal, occupying, expansionist ideology called Zionism threatens not only me, not only our party, not only our alliance, it threatens everyone,\u201d Erdogan said. \u201cWhen we struggle against Zionism, we are not waging this struggle for ourselves or for personal reasons. We are doing it for our own survival and for the survival of our nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\" Erdogan: Israel threatens Turkey - Slams attacks on Syria &amp; Lebanon\" class=\"Lazy_poster__hZbms\" data-is=\"lazy-image\" data-observed-item-id=\"https:\/\/i24israel.vod.immergo.tv\/i24israel\/api-uploaded\/WILDMOKA_65803522811.jpg\"\/> Erdogan: Israel threatens Turkey &#8211; Slams attacks on Syria &amp; Lebanon<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">Such language is familiar territory for Erdogan, who has repeatedly cast Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in extreme terms since the Hamas-led October 7 massacre and the ensuing war in Gaza. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">He has called Israel a \u201cterrorist state\u201d and an \u201coccupier,\u201d compared Netanyahu to Hitler and Stalin, and accused the Israeli government of \u201cgenocidal methods.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">The rhetoric has accompanied a broader rupture in Turkey-Israel ties after a period of rapprochement before the war. <\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Israel and Turkey relations and conflict: Ofer Shelah #OntheRecord with Ariel Oseran\" class=\"Lazy_poster__hZbms\" data-is=\"lazy-image\" data-observed-item-id=\"https:\/\/i24israel.vod.immergo.tv\/i24israel\/transcoded\/2958d871-c243-45d0-bdcf-a1c5550e60de\/poster.jpg\"\/>Israel and Turkey relations and conflict: Ofer Shelah #OntheRecord with Ariel Oseran<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">Ankara has maintained contacts with Hamas, hosted delegations from the terrorist group and cut trade and economic ties with Israel, while stopping short of severing diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday accused Zionism of threatening Turkey\u2019s survival, in the latest broadside by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-514838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514838","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=514838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}