Accusing Western leaders of ‘unconditional assist’ to Israel, Turkish chief says his nation won’t enable Center East borders to be redrawn ‘in blood’.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the “largest impediment to regional peace” and that Israeli attacks on Iran proper earlier than a brand new spherical of nuclear talks with the USA aimed to sabotage the negotiations.
Addressing Arab League diplomats throughout a gathering of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Istanbul on Saturday, Erdogan urged nations with affect over Israel to not take heed to its “poison” and to hunt an answer to the fighting through dialogue with out permitting a wider battle.
Israeli assaults on Iran present that Netanyahu “and his authorities … are not looking for any points or any issues to be solved diplomatically,” mentioned Erdogan.
“Netanyahu’s Zionist ambitions don’t have any different goal than to pull our area and … the entire world into an enormous catastrophe,” he added.
Erdogan accused the Western leaders of offering “unconditional assist” to Israel. He mentioned Turkiye wouldn’t enable borders within the Center East to be redrawn “in blood”.
“It’s vital for us to indicate extra solidarity to finish Israel’s banditry – not solely in Palestine but additionally in Syria, in Lebanon and in Iran,” he informed the OIC gathering.
The 57-member OIC, based in 1969, says its mission is to “safeguard and shield the pursuits of the Muslim world within the spirit of selling worldwide peace and concord”.
Talking earlier than Erdogan, Turkish International Minister Hakan Fidan accused Israel of main the Center East in direction of “whole catastrophe” by attacking Iran.
“Israel is now main the area to the brink of whole catastrophe by attacking Iran, our neighbour,” he mentioned. “There isn’t any Palestinian, Lebanese, Syrian, Yemeni or Iranian downside however there may be clearly an Israeli downside.”
Al Jazeera’s Sinem Koseoglu, reporting from Istanbul, mentioned Turkiye as the present OIC chair sees itself well-placed in serving to to discover a decision to the Israel-Iran battle.
“It’s a NATO member nation positioned between the Western and Muslim worlds, and has sturdy bilateral relations with Iran, the Western world and the USA. And till a couple of years in the past, it had sturdy relations with Israel,” she mentioned.
On Friday, Iranian International Minister Abbas Araghchi mentioned his nation was solely ready to interact with the US if Israel stops its assaults on Iran.
“Iran is able to take into account diplomacy as soon as once more and as soon as the aggression is stopped and the aggressor is held accountable for the crimes dedicated,” mentioned Araghchi.
“We assist the continuation of debate with [Britain, France, Germany and the EU] and categorical our readiness to fulfill once more within the close to future.”
