Alwaght- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lambasted Israeli regime's premier Benjamin Netanyahu, calling him a “leader of a terrorist state” following the massacre of peaceful Palestinian protesters in Gaza.
Erdogan made the comments at his ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party congress in the southern Adana province. Addressing the event, the president slammed Netanyahu’s criticism of Turkey’s military operation in Syria.
“I do not need to tell the world how cruel the Israeli army is. We can see what this terror state is doing by looking at the situation in Gaza and al-Quds (Jerusalem),” Erdogan said.
"Israel has carried out a massacre in Gaza and Netanyahu is a terrorist. We will continue to expose Israeli terror all the time and on all platforms,” he added.
"We are dealing with terrorists, but you are not. Because you are a terror state," Erdogan noted.
His remarks came after at least 17 Gazans were martyred and hundreds injured on Friday when Israeli forces opened fire on protesters marking “Land Day.”
Land Day is an annual Palestinian commemoration of the deaths of six Palestinians by Israeli regime forces in 1976 during demonstrations over the usurper regime's land confiscations in northern occupied territories.
Calling the Israeli regime's premier "an occupier" in Palestine, Erdogan said Netanyahu has no right to criticize Turkey.
"You are also a terrorist. History is recording what you have done to all those oppressed Palestinians," Erdogan said.
Friday’s rallies were the start of a six-week protest that culminates on May 15, the day the Palestinians call “Nakba,” or the Catastrophe, when Israel was founded.
The demonstrators are demanding that Palestinian refugees be allowed the right of return to towns and villages which their families fled from, or were driven out of, when the fake Israeli entity was created in 1948.
