Türkiye to submit petition to world court on Wednesday to join genocide case against Israel: President Erdogan

ISTANBUL

This week Türkiye will submit a petition to join the world court genocide case against Israel, the nation’s president announced on Monday.

“Our parliamentary legal team will submit our petition to join the genocide case against Israel to the International Court of Justice in The Hague” on Wednesday, said Recep Tayyip President.

Türkiye is doing everything in its power to end as soon as possible the “barbarism” that has claimed the lives of 40,000 innocents in Gaza over the past 10 months, he said after a Cabinet meeting in the capital Ankara.

“No matter what atrocities this bloodthirsty genocide network commits, it won’t stop Türkiye or the Turkish people from standing in solidarity with the Palestinians,” he added.

Türkiye, with all its resources, stands with Palestine “in these difficult days of struggle for its existence,” he said.

“Unfortunately, Western actors, particularly the US, have become captives of Israel and a handful of fanatic Zionists,” he added.

Regarding last week’s dramatic prisoner exchange in Ankara involving seven countries, mediated by Türkiye’s National Intelligence Organization, President Erdogan said the exchange of 26 people from prisons in the US, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway, Russia, and Belarus went “flawlessly” and set an example for the world.

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