Erdogan accuses the West of supporting Israel and says he is on Lebanon’s side

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said today that Turkey stands in solidarity with Lebanon in the wake of rising tensions with Israel and called on regional countries to support Beirut. Speaking to his party’s caucus in the Turkish parliament, Erdogan said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was planning to spread the war on Gaza to the region and that this would be disastrous, and described the West’s support for Israel as deplorable. “It seems that Israel, which destroyed Gaza, is now turning its sights on Lebanon. We see that the Western powers are supporting Israel behind the scenes,” the Turkish president said before his party’s deputies in parliament. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that at the end of the “intense phase” of its offensive on the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military would be “in a position to redeploy some forces to the north” near the border with Lebanon, increasing fears […]
Source: News Beast

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