President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday slammed the Israeli government for seeking to erase Palestine from the international community’s agenda by fueling instability and new conflicts in the region, vowing that Türkiye would continue to defend the Palestinian cause on every platform.
Speaking at a joint news conference with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ankara, Erdoğan said Israel’s policies of occupation, forced displacement and seizure of Palestinian land were continuing to intensify in the occupied territories.
“The Netanyahu government’s aim is to remove Palestine from humanity’s common agenda by benefiting from chaos and new conflicts in the region,” Erdoğan said. “Whatever they do, they will not succeed.”
“The more they try to erase it, the more the Palestinian cause will continue to grow in people’s hearts,” he added. “As Türkiye, we will continue to defend the Palestinian cause in the strongest possible manner on every platform.”
Erdoğan reiterated Türkiye’s commitment to the establishment of an independent and sovereign Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital and full geographical integrity.
