“Just like we entered Karabakh, just like we entered Libya, we might do something similar to them,” he said, according to a Reuters report. Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz then came back with a bombshell, suggesting that Erdoğan would meet a similarly deadly fate as Saddam Hussein of Iraq, who was hanged in 2006.” “Erdoğan follows in the footsteps of Saddam Hussein and threatens to attack Israel.
In a statement uploaded on X with a photo of Erdoğan with the former Iraqi leader, Katz said, “Just let him remember what happened there and how it ended.”
The U.S. State Department, the Turkish Embassy in Washington, D.C., and NATO could not be reached for comment at this time regarding their efforts to defuse tensions between the NATO member state and the United States’ principal Middle East ally.
Israel’s increasing conflict with Iranian-backed Islamic extremist groups like Hezbollah, Hamas, and Houthi coincides with the threats made by the Turkish president.
