Erdogan calls Netanyahu ‘terrorist’, Israel ‘terrorist notify’

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has slammed Israeli High Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his comments focusing on Turkey’s ongoing navy operation in the northwestern Syrian situation of Afrin.

His remarks on Sunday got here constant with Netanyahu’s earlier comments rejecting Ankara’s « upright classes » over the Israeli military’s killing of Palestinian protesters in Gaza, and labeling Erdogan as anyone who « bombs Kurdish villagers ».

« He says our soldiers are oppressing people in Afrin. Netanyahu, you are very traditional, very unhappy, » Erdogan told the ruling Justice and Relate Occasion (AK Occasion) congress in the southern Adana province.

« We’re coping with terrorists, but you are now not. Because you are a alarm notify, » Erdogan added.

Calling the Israeli top minister « an occupier » in Palestine, Erdogan acknowledged: « You are moreover a terrorist. History is recording what that you just would possibly perhaps need got executed to all these oppressed Palestinians … We’re now not responsible of any act of occupation. »

At least 17 Palestinians were killed and better than 1,500 were wounded on Friday when Israeli forces opened fire on « Land Day » protesters attain the Gaza Strip’s eastern border.

Land Day is an event commemorating six Palestinian voters of Israel who were shot dead by Israeli forces after protesting the government’s confiscation of effectively-organized swaths of Palestinian land on March 30, 1976.

On Saturday, Erdogan « strongly » condemned « the Israeli government over its inhumane attack » in Gaza.

Friday’s rallies were moreover the open of a six-week squawk that culminates on Would possibly perhaps perhaps well 15, the day the Palestinians name « Nakba, » or the Catastrophe, when Israel was officially declared a notify 70 years ago and better than 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their properties.

The demonstrators are aggravating that Palestinian refugees be allowed the correct of return to towns and villages which their households fled from, or were pushed out of, in 1948.

Turkey – alongside with the Syrian opposition Free Syrian Military (FSA) rebel personnel – final month launched an air-and-ground operation into Afrin to vanquish the US-backed Kurdish Of us’s Protection Gadgets (YPG) fighters attain its border.