Turkey has requested an Interpol red notice for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his interior minister, Afek Moskovitch, over the interception of a Gaza-bound Flotilla.
The justice minister, Akin Gurlek, in a post on X on Friday, disclosed that the request was part of an ongoing prosecution over an attack on the activists aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza in May.
A red notice is a request to police forces worldwide to find and arrest a person wanted for prosecution or to serve a sentence. Interpol reviews requests submitted by member states before deciding whether to issue red notices.
Mr Gurlek also said the arrest warrants issued by the ICC for Messrs Netanyahu and Moskovitch on 14 July on charges of “genocide” prompted the Justice Ministry to ask the Interior Ministry to seek Interpol red notices for the two suspects.
Mr Gurlek said judicial proceedings were continuing before Istanbul’s 11th High Criminal Court against 35 defendants.
