Türkiye expresses deep concern over ‘irresponsible and provocative claims’ by Israel
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye on Wednesday expressed “deep concern” over the increasing tensions in Jerusalem and West Bank as Muslim’s holy month of Ramadan nears.
In a statement, the Turkish Foreign Ministry lambasted the “baseless, irresponsible and provocative claims” made by some Israeli politicians on the Palestinian nationhood, “which are incompatible with political, historical or current realities.”
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in a speech on Sunday in Paris denied the very existence of the Palestinian nation, saying the Palestinians were “an invention” from the last century and people like himself and his grandparents were the “real Palestinians.”
Ankara also condemned Israel’s annulment of a part of a 2005 law that had ordered Jewish residents’ evacuation from four illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.