Saturday, November 4, 2023

Erdogan says Netanyahu no longer someone Turkey can talk to: ‘We have written him off’

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he was breaking off contact with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu due to Israel’s actions against the Hamas terror group in Gaza.

“Netanyahu is no longer someone we can talk to. We have written him off,” Turkish media quoted Erdogan as saying.

Erdogan’s remarks came a week after Israel said it was “re-evaluating” its relations with Ankara because of Turkey’s increasingly heated rhetoric about the Israel-Hamas war.

Israel had earlier withdrawn all diplomats from Turkey and other regional countries as a security precaution.

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