Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today defined Israel "as a threat to the whole world and called on the international community to stop it before it is too late", Turkish media reported, quoted by BTA.
Today, Gaza has become the largest death camp in the world. The State of Israel is a threat not only to Palestine and Lebanon, but to all of humanity. The genocide that Israel is committing, this cruelty and barbarism must be stopped immediately before it is too late, the Turkish president said in a meeting with the heads of regional offices of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).
How many more children must die to see that Israel's aggressive policy is a threat to the entire region, the Turkish leader asked.
For nearly 300 days, a brutal genocide has been taking place in Gaza. Israel brutally massacred 40 thousand of our Palestinian brothers and sisters by bombarding them. They have signed up to a barbarism that will eclipse Hitler, Erdogan also said, quoted by CNN-Turk TV.
He emphasized that he will not be intimidated by any threats.
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz had said that Erdogan could repeat the fate of Saddam Hussein.
Over the weekend, Erdogan threatened that "Turkey could enter Israel, as it has done in the past in Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh," though he did not specify what kind of intervention he proposed.
After the Turkish president's threats, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz called for Turkey to be excluded from NATO, world agencies inform.
Erdogan has turned Turkey into a member of Iran's axis of evil, Katz said late last night, adding that "Turkey hosts" the Hamas group.
Katz called on all NATO member states to "kick Turkey out immediately." He added that Turkey had violated NATO principles by threatening to invade a democratic country.