{"id":522492,"date":"2026-07-03T00:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T00:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/522492\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T00:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T00:12:06","slug":"turkey-says-israel-is-problem-for-the-entire-world-saar-calls-it-genocide-incite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/522492\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey says Israel is ‘problem for the entire world’; Sa\u2019ar calls it ‘genocide incite"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIsrael has become a problem for the entire international community,\u201d Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said in a sharp attack Thursday evening in an interview with CNN T\u00fcrk.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have no intention of backing down from our position. Israel is not only a problem for Turkey, it has become a problem for the entire world. Israeli authorities have become a burden humanity can no longer bear,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"\u05d4\u05e7\u05d0\u05df<\/a>\"\u05d4\u05e7\u05d0\u05df<\/p>\n

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan <\/p>\n

(Photo: ANWAR AMRO \/ AFP)<\/p>\n

Fidan said Turkey<\/a> was the first country to halt trade with Israel over its aggression in the Gaza Strip. \u201cOur president stopped $10 billion in trade with Israel overnight. It is important to take a firm position and start doing something,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnti-Israel sentiment has emerged around the world, from university campuses to newspapers and intellectual platforms, because they are openly carrying out massacres,\u201d he said. \u201cThey are openly playing a destabilizing role everywhere. In the past, they could hide this with a few simple media maneuvers. Now they can no longer hide it. Israel is now looking for a new enemy to change its destructive and shameful image in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa\u2019ar<\/a> called Fidan\u2019s remarks \u201csickening\u201d and said they amounted to \u201cclear incitement to genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe dehumanization of the Jewish people and portraying them as an \u2018intolerable burden\u2019 is the classic language of the greatest oppressors in history,\u201d Sa\u2019ar said. \u201cThe enlightened world and Turkey\u2019s NATO allies must unequivocally condemn this explicit call for Israel\u2019s destruction.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Turkish foreign minister\u2019s remarks add to the harsh criticism Turkey has directed at Israel since October 7. This week, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan<\/a> responded to Israel\u2019s historic recognition of the Armenian genocide, saying: \u201cWe do not take even slightly seriously the slanders against our country by a murder network whose hands are stained with the blood of 75,000 innocent Gazans, most of them women and children.\u201d\"\u05e8\u05d2'\u05e4<\/a>\"\u05e8\u05d2'\u05e4<\/p>\n

Sa\u2019ar and Erdogan <\/p>\n

(Photo: Adem ALTAN \/ AFP, REUTERS\/Kevin Lamarque)<\/p>\n

Speaking after a Cabinet meeting in Ankara on Tuesday, Erdogan said Turkey\u2019s history did not include oppression, massacres, colonialism or genocide, but rather mercy and support for the oppressed, regardless of religion, origin or identity. He also cited what he described as the moral nobility of offering refuge to those fleeing the Inquisition and Nazi persecution, as well as the resolve of Turkey\u2019s ancestors, who he said would rather give up their crown than surrender those who had found shelter in their country.<\/p>\n

The Turkish president added that those who malign Turkey and the Turkish people in an effort to obscure what he called their barbarity in Gaza would know this if they examined their own history.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is never too late to do the right thing,\u201d Sa\u2019ar said at the Cabinet meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIsrael has become a problem for the entire international community,\u201d Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-522492","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\/522492","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=522492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}