Turkiye’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Friday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies and government are a strain for Israel, the region and international security, Anadolu reports.
“The policies of Netanyahu’s government are not only a problem for us,” Fidan said in an interview with the Abu Dhabi-based The National newspaper. “His policies and his government are a burden for Israel, a burden for the region, and a burden and threat for international security.”
Fidan ruled out the possibility that rhetoric between Ankara and Tel Aviv could escalate into an open conflict.
“There is no reason to have an open conflict,” he said. Turkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan “is a leader of peace and wisdom” who “wouldn’t be baited into anything,” he added.
European leaders, while beginning to recognize the danger of Israel, are yet to find ways of dealing with the problem, he said, warning that attempts to destabilize the progress in Syria could change that.
