NATO Ally Turkey Condemned the Killing of Hamas Terrorist

Turkey CONDEMNS Strike on HAMAS Chief

Ismail Haniyeh, a terrorist for Hamas, was killed in Iran on Wednesday, and the Turkish government denounced the killing as a “shameful” act that would turn the Gaza battle into a regional confrontation.

 

The Turkish Foreign Ministry released a statement on Wednesday saying, “We condemn the assassination of the leader of Hamas’s political office, Ismail Haniyeh, in a heinous attack in Tehran.”

 

The goal of this strike is also to escalate the conflict in Gaza to a regional scale. The Turkish Foreign Ministry stated that “our region will face an even greater conflict if the international community does not act to stop Israel.”

 

In an even more hysterical social media post on Wednesday morning, Turkey’s authoritarian Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lamented Haniyeh as his “brother” and charged the Israelis with “barbarism” for supposedly carrying out his assassination.

 

Erdogan denounced, “This assassination is a despicable act aimed at demoralizing and intimidating the Palestinians, and disrupting the Palestinian cause, the glorious resistance of Gaza, and the just struggle of our Palestinian brothers.”

 

Erdogan was no fan of Israel before Haniyeh’s death, having compared the Israeli government to Nazi Germany. Two weeks ago, he said Turkey – an increasingly problematic member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) – would block any NATO effort to cooperate with Israel.

Erdogan made threats to attack Israel on behalf of the Palestinians on Monday while speaking at an AKP party event.

 

“Perhaps we might enter Libya in the same manner that we entered Karabakh. We are not limited in any way. We must be resilient,” Erdogan declared.

 

Drones supplied by Turkey enabled the Islamist government in Azerbaijan to annex the disputed area of Nagorno-Karabakh by force in September 2023 and start eradicating the local Armenian Christian population. In 2020, Turkish armies invaded Libya on a full military campaign.

 

Erdogan’s government deliberately promotes Hamas to hold demonstrations in Turkey; in addition, Erdogan declined to denounce the horrors carried out by Palestinian terrorists on October 7. Turkey does not recognize Hamas as a terrorist group. Rather, he emphasized that Hamas is a “liberation group” made up of “mujahideen” (Muslim holy warriors), not a terrorist organization.

 

In a statement released on Wednesday, the AKP Party asserted that Israel’s assassination of Haniyeh “pulled the trigger” on a regional conflict.

 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government are “the biggest obstacle to world peace,” according to AKP spokesman Omer Celik.

 

The Iranian authorities are still withholding information regarding the precise circumstances of Haniyeh’s murder on Wednesday in Tehran. The Israeli government has not acknowledged any role in his demise as of Wednesday afternoon.