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Erdogan Says Turkiye Could 'Enter' Israel To Help Gazans

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan  - Sputnik International, 1920, 28.07.2024
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ISTANBUL (Sputnik) - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkiye could "enter" Israel just as it once did in Libya and Karabakh.
Speaking at a meeting of the ruling party branch in the president's native province of Rize, Erdogan noted the success of the country's defense industry, but urged not to be deceived by them. According to the president, if the successes had been even greater, Israel "would not have done to Palestine what it did."
"We must be strong. As we entered Karabakh, as we entered Libya, so we will do to them [Israel]. There is nothing we cannot do. We must be strong to take such steps," Erdogan said in a speech broadcast by the national television.
Erdogan also once again recalled the refusal of the leader of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, to speak in the Turkish parliament. Earlier, the Turkish president urged Abbas to apologize.
The Turkish parliament approved the extension of the mandate for the deployment of the Turkish military contingent in Libya for two years from January 2024. Turkiye supported Azerbaijan during the Second Karabakh War in the fall of 2020, and Turkish drones actively participated in the operations.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke in the US Congress on Wednesday, sparking protests by anti-war activists at the Capitol. Turkish politicians, including Erdogan, harshly criticized the speech of "war criminal" Netanyahu in the Congress and those senators who gave him a standing ovation.
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