Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the President of Turkey, said on Wednesday that Israel is not conducting itself “like a state” in the Gaza Strip, the recent comments come after Israel pounded the Gaza Strip with hundreds of airstrikes overnight.
“Israel should not forget that if it acts more like an organization rather than a state, it’ll finish by being treated as such,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, slamming “shameful methods” of the Israeli army in the densely-populated Gaza Strip.
He said, “Bombing civilian sites, killing civilians, blocking humanitarian aid and trying to present these as achievements are the acts of an organization and not a state.”
Usually, Erdogan uses the word “organization” when he refers to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which is listed as a terror group by Turkey and its Western allies.
“We think that a war should have an ethic and that both parties should respect it. Unfortunately, this principle is gravely violated in Israel and Gaza,” he said, condemning the “murders of civilians on Israeli territory” and “the blind massacre of innocents in Gaza subjected to constant bombardment.”
