President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed strong opposition to the Israeli atrocities being carried out in the Gaza Strip and said Turkey was the only country taking concrete measures.
“We are the only country that has reacted most strongly to the massacres in Gaza since October 7 and taken concrete measures against Israel,” Erdogan said at a consultation and evaluation meeting of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) in the Kizilcahama district of the capital, Ankara.
He added that Turkey first suspended trade with Israel on 54 items, then all items.
He noted that Turkey “stands with the heroic Palestinian people” in defending their homeland, and said Turkey will not hesitate to voice its support for the Palestinian resistance.
Erdogan also praised the Turkish parliament’s decision to condemn the Israeli massacre in Rafah, calling it “highly valuable.”
Regarding the Palestinian situation, Turkey said it was sending more than 55,000 tons of humanitarian aid to the region.
On May 26, Israel launched airstrikes on a displaced persons camp in Rafah, killing at least 45 people, mostly women and children.
Israel has continued its brutal attacks on Gaza since the Hamas attack on October 7, despite a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire.
Since then, some 36,400 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, the majority of them women and children, and more than 82,000 have been injured, according to local health officials.
Nearly eight months into Israel’s war, supplies of food, clean water and medicine have been severely limited and large swaths of Gaza are in ruins.
Israel is accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice, which in its latest ruling ordered it to immediately halt military operations in Rafah, where more than one million Palestinians had fled the war before the May 6 invasion.
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