Turkey Issues Arrest Warrant for Netanyahu

Hamas commended Turkey’s announcement, stating the “step reaffirms the principled stance of the Turkish people and their leadership, who are dedicated to the values of justice and humanity, and to the solidarity that connects them to our oppressed Palestinian people, who have faced, and continue to endure, the most heinous extermination campaign in modern history at the hands of the war criminals among the leaders of the fascist occupation.”

In response to Turkey’s call for arrests, Yisrael Beytenu MK Avigdor Liberman said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s arrest warrants against senior Israelis “clarify why Turkey must not be present in the Gaza Strip – indirectly or directly.”

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar dismissed the arrest warrants as a ploy, recalling that the same prosecutor’s office recently led to the arrest of the mayor of Istanbul solely because he dared to run against Erdogan.

"In Erdogan's Turkey, the judicial system has long since become a tool for suppressing political rivals and arresting journalists, judges, and mayors. Israel contemptuously rejects the latest PR stunt from the school of the tyrant Erdogan."