Israeli Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz compared Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein because of the words of the Turkish head about the possible deployment of troops to Israel.
"Erdogan is following in the footsteps of Saddam Hussein and threatening to attack Israel. He just has to remember what happened there and how it ended," wrote Katz in X.
On July 28, Erdogan warned that Turkey could send troops to Israel because of Tel Aviv's policy towards Palestine.
"Just as we entered Karabakh and Libya, we will do the same with them," he said.
In January 2020, Turkey sent troops to Libya to support the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA). In the autumn of the same year, Ankara supported Baku in the conflict with Yerevan over Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev then spoke about the "joint peacekeeping mission of Russia and Turkey." Moscow stated that only Russian peacekeepers would be present in Karabakh, and interaction with Turkey would be carried out within the framework of the monitoring center on the territory of Azerbaijan.
Erdogan supports the settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict by creating an independent Palestinian state with its capital in East Jerusalem within the 1967 borders. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects the idea of "two states."
After the start of Israel's war with Hamas, Erdogan repeatedly criticized the actions of the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip, comparing them to a "massacre," and also stated that he had "written off" Netanyahu and no longer communicated with him.
"We need to know that the Hitler of the present time, Netanyahu, and his accomplices will not be able to escape responsibility. No matter how far he runs, we will follow him," he claimed.
Saddam Hussein was the president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003, when his regime was overthrown. He supported the Palestinians and had a negative attitude towards Israel. In 1991, Iraq launched a missile attack on Israel. There are no diplomatic relations between the countries. Three years after the overthrow of the Hussein regime, he was executed, RBC reminds.