Amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday lambasted Israel for its “aggression” against Hamas in Gaza and called, “Tel Aviv is ‘acting like a terrorist organisation’ and ‘committing crimes against humanity'”. According to Erdogan, Hamas ‘is not a terror group’, and called it a ‘patriotic organisation that defends its territory and people’
While addressing the Parliament, he unequivocally cancelled his scheduled state visit to Israel and said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ‘abused Turkey’s goodwill’. “Hamas is not a terrorist organization, it is a group of mujahideen defending their lands. I’m cancelling plans to visit Israel because of its inhumane war,” he said in the parliament. “We had a project to go to Israel, but it was cancelled, we will not go,” he added.
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