Turkey
“The world is watching the barbarity of ... a psychopath ... who feeds on blood,” said the Turkish leader.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said his decision will apply until the Turks elect a leader who is not an antisemite.
Turkey was in “constant contact” with and supports Hamas, which is not a terrorist group, said the Turkish leader.
“Don’t give in to the threats of a dictator, enable alternatives, and don’t be dependent on a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood,” Israel Katz said.
“The Turks are filled with self-confidence and maybe going back to a period when they were more aggressive and trying to change the status quo in the region,” Dr. Gallia Lindenstrauss told JNS.
Due to safety concerns amid heightened Israel-Turkey tensions, the athletes will not be able to qualify for the games this summer in Paris.
Israel Katz said he instructed his office to devise alternative trade routes that bypass Turkey.
Israel’s Ministry of Affairs did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding the future of these tours in the wake of the attack.
Ankara has given unequivocal support to Hamas in its war against Israel.
“Muslim Brotherhood: Rape, massacre, desecration of corpses, burning babies. @RTErdogan, you should be ashamed!” the Israeli minister tweeted.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan presented Turkey as the longtime defender of the Islamist terrorist group.
In the aftermath of Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre, Israel-Turkey relations have once again become the scapegoat of Turkish domestic politics, expert tells JNS.
