ALBAWABA - On Saturday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sent a strong message of warning. He said that Israel is leading the world toward a big disaster and compared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's goals to those of Adolf Hitler.
Erdogan said at the 51st meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Foreign Ministers' Council in Istanbul that Israel's recent military activities in the area, including in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Iran, are "piracy" and are supported by the West. He said that Netanyahu's Zionist plans, like Hitler's did 90 years ago, threaten not only regional but also world security.
Erdogan said that Israel was taking advantage of the fact that the Islamic world is divided, and he asked OIC member states to work together to expose and fight Israeli violence. He warned against changes to the region that were like the Sykes-Picot deal and said that Turkey would not allow them to happen.
The president of Turkey also said that Israel was attacking Iran on purpose while nuclear talks with the US were still going on. He called the strikes a planned attempt to stop diplomatic talks.
In a separate statement, Hakan Fidan, the foreign minister of Turkey, said that Israel was making the area a "total catastrophe." He didn't believe that the problem was limited to a few countries. Instead, he said it was caused by Israeli violence.
Fidan demanded that what he called "unlimited violence" against Iran stop right away and asked Muslim countries to stop any further worsening that could threaten both regional and global safety.
The high-level OIC meeting is being held in Istanbul, and people from 57 member states and several foreign groups are there. The goal of the two-day meeting is to deal with rising tensions in the Middle East and come up with a coordinated answer to the conflict between Israel and Iran.
