Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz tweeted Friday in response to President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's earlier statement that Ankara is preparing documents for a "genocide lawsuit" against Israel at the International Court of Justice.
President of Turkey Recep Tayyip © Mena Today
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz tweeted Friday in response to President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's earlier statement that Ankara is preparing documents for a "genocide lawsuit" against Israel at the International Court of Justice.
"From a country with the Armenian Genocide in its past, now boasts of targeting Israel with unfounded claims. We remember the Armenians and the Kurds. Your history speaks for itself. Israel stands in defense, not destruction, against your barbarian allies."
Turkey, established in 1923 after the Ottoman Empire collapsed, has always denied there was a systematic campaign to annihilate Armenians.
Turkey is providing documents for a case brought by South Africa against Israel at the U.N.'s top court on a charge of committing genocide against Palestinian civilians, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday.
Speaking to reporters in Istanbul, Erdogan said that Turkey would continue to provide documents, mostly visuals, on Israel's attacks on Gaza.
"I believe Israel will be convicted there. We believe in the justice of the International Court of Justice", Erdogan said.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun launched a scathing attack on Hezbollah Monday, accusing the Iran-backed group of deliberately seeking to trigger Lebanon's « collapse », and calling for direct negotiations with Israel to end the war.
The U.S. Justice Department has agreed to resolve its long-running criminal prosecution of Turkish state-run lender Halkbank, the judge overseeing the case said in a court filing on Monday, without providing further details of the deal.
Hezbollah said on Monday its fighters clashed with Israeli troops in eastern Lebanon during an Israeli airborne raid overnight, in what would be the second such operation in the area in recent days, as the war between Israel and the Iran-backed group entered a second week.
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