Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday that Israel was “completely out of its mind,” accusing it of crimes against humanity over its ongoing war against the Hamas terror group.
Erdogan vowed to bring Jerusalem to justice over “crimes committed in the Gaza Strip,” and accused the United States and Europe of being complicit in them, while making no mention of Hamas’s deadly onslaught on October 7.
“I believe that we should stop Israel — which looks as if it’s completely out of its mind and lost it — as soon as possible. We will ensure that those responsible for war crimes in Gaza will face justice,” he said in a statement following a cabinet meeting.
Erdogan, whose government only recently restored full diplomatic ties with Israel, has massively stepped up his criticism of the country during the war. Earlier this week, he asserted that Hamas was not a terrorist organization but a liberation group of “mujahideen” fighting for its lands and people.
In an address to a mass pro-Palestinian rally in Istanbul Saturday, Erdogan said that his country was making preparations to proclaim Israel a “war criminal” for its actions in Gaza.