Erdogan, a vocal critic of Israel’s war in the Palestinian territory following Hamas’s attack on October 7, has often expressed support for the Palestinian terrorist organization as defenders of their homeland.
Hamas is classed as a terrorist organization by Israel, the United States and the European Union, among others, but Erdogan has repeatedly rejected this, calling it an organization of freedom fighters.
“Do not think that Israel will stop in Gaza,” Erdogan told his party lawmakers in the parliament in the capital Ankara.
“Unless it’s stopped… this rogue and terrorist state will set its sights on Anatolia sooner or later,” he said, in a bizarre claim referring to the large Turkish peninsula also called Asia Minor that comprises more than half of Turkey’s territory. READ MORE