LiveLive Updates July 03, 2026Share to FacebookShare to XArticle printing is available to subscribers onlyPrint in a simple, ad-free formatSubscribeComments: Zen reading is available to subscribers onlyAd-free and in a comfortable reading formatSubscribeJuly 03, 2026UpdatesIsraeli FM slams Turkish counterpart’s ‘sickening’ comments as ‘incitement to genocide’Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar blasted his Turkish counterpart on X on Thursday, calling comments made by Hakan Fidan an explicit incitement to genocide.Sa'ar was responding to a broadcast on CNN Turk, in which Fidan stated that "Israel is not only a problem for Turkey, it has become a problem for the whole world." Fidan claimed that the Israeli authorities "have become a burden that humanity can no longer bear" and highlighted that Ankara had overnight severed $10 billion in trade with Israel due to its military aggression.In his response, Sa'ar described Fidan's remarks as sickening, arguing that the dehumanization of the Jewish people as an intolerable burden mirrors the classic language of history's greatest tyrants. The Israeli foreign minister called on the international community and Turkey's NATO allies to unequivocally condemn what he characterized as an explicit call for the destruction of Israel.דבריו המחליאים של שר החוץ של טורקיה @HakanFidan הם הסתה ברורה לרצח עם.