Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the legal committee of his country’s parliament will submit to the International Court of Justice Ankara’s request to join the genocide case filed against Israel on August 7.
During a press conference on Monday after chairing a government meeting at the presidential complex in Ankara, Erdogan added that Turkey stands with Palestine and supports “the Palestinian brothers with all its capabilities despite the (economic) difficulties they are experiencing these days.”
Regarding the Israeli attacks on Gaza, the Turkish president stressed that they are doing “everything in our power to end this barbarism that has claimed the lives of 40,000 innocent people in the past ten months as soon as possible.”
He continued: “The West, especially the United States, have unfortunately become prisoners of Israel and a handful of fanatical Zionists.”
Regarding the prisoner exchange between 7 countries in Ankara, Erdogan congratulated the Turkish intelligence service and its elements “who played a sensitive role in the important exchange process that consolidated Turkey’s pivotal role alongside its humanitarian dimension.”
He stressed that “the exchange of 26 people in prisons in the United States, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway, Russia and Belarus took place without any problems and was a model for the world.”
