Turkey President Tayyip Erdogan, who has been a fierce critic of Israel’s action against Palestinians since the war broke out on October 7, hinted on Sunday that an intervention by Ankara into the Jewish State is not ruled out.
The Turkish President during a speech praising his country’s defense industry, brought out the Israel-Palestine conflict and said his country will not let Israel do “ridiculous things to Palestine” and cited earlier instances of intervention in Karabakh and Libya to make a case that Turkey wouldn’t hesitate doing the same, if the situation demanded an Turkish intervention.
“We must be very strong so that Israel can’t do these things to Palestine,” says Erdogan, one of the most bitter critics of Israel on the international stage, referring to the war against Hamas in Gaza.

“Just as we entered [Nagorno-]Karabakh, just as we entered Libya, we might do the same to them. There is nothing we can’t do. We must only be strong.
However, Israel foreign minister Israel Katz slammed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for his remarks and accused him of following the Iraqi dictator “Sadam Hussein’s footsteps”, whose regime the Americans toppled in 2003 under the leadership of former President George Bush.
“Erdogan follows in the footsteps of Saddam Hussein and threatens to attack Israel. Just let him remember what happened there and how it ended,” the Jewish state’s foreign minister said on X.

In recent months, Erdogan has suggested that Jerusalem would “set its sights” on Ankara once it has completed its goal of destroying Hamas’s military and freeing the hostages abducted by the Gazan terror group on October 7.
“Israel will stop in Gaza.”
Ankara has also been odds at with its western and Nato allies in recent months over their supposed backing of Israel, what the Turkish leader calls as “plans to intentionally spread war throughout the Middle East”.
In 2020, Turkey, under Erdoğan’s direction, provided military support to Azerbaijan during a 44-day conflict sparked by a land dispute with Armenia and the breakaway territory of Artsakh, or the republic of Nagorno-Karabakh. The Turkish military did not intervene directly, and instead provided assistance, which included the deployment of Syrian mercenaries and a supply of drones.
( with input from agencies)