Speaking in Paris after talks with French President Emmanuel Macron, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said efforts to deny the “millennial connection of the Jewish people to Jerusalem” were “absurd”. Earlier, Mr Netanyahu responded to the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan saying he had “attacked Israel”, according to the following BBC report:
“I’m not used to receiving lectures about morality from a leader who bombs Kurdish villages in his native Turkey, who jails journalists, helps Iran go around international sanctions and who helps terrorists, including in Gaza, kill innocent people,” he added.
In Turkey, Erdogan told a large rally in Constantinople he would not abandon Jerusalem to a state that “kills children”.
The Turkish president has described Jerusalem as a “red line” issue for Muslims and warned Turkey could end up severing diplomatic ties with Israel over the issue.
Turkey and Israel only restored diplomatic relations last year, six years after Turkey cut ties in protest at the killing of nine pro-Palestinian Turkish activists during clashes with Israeli commandos on board a ship trying to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza.
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Source: BBC
