Netanyahu’s office scorns Turkish regime threat to arrest PM
Israel “has long ceased to be impressed by Turkey’s hypocrisy,” the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem said on Friday, hours after Ankara issued another arrest warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan “is an antisemitic dictator who has massacred Kurds, harbors Hamas terrorists, occupies half of Cyprus, and jails record numbers of journalists and politicians who oppose him,” the PMO said in a separate statement in English.“He now seeks to extend his aggression against Israel into Syria. Israel will not tolerate it,” the statement read.“Erdoğan’s pathetic attempt to intimidate the leaders and soldiers of Israel, the only true democracy in the Middle East, will go nowhere,” it added.The Prime Minister's Office:Erdoğan is an antisemitic dictator who has massacred Kurds, harbors Hamas terrorists, occupies half of Cyprus, and jails record numbers of journalists and politicians who oppose him. He now seeks to extend his aggression against Israel into…
Turkey's Justice Minister Akin Gürlek announced new arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and 34 other Israeli officials, including an IDF soldier, on Friday. These warrants are linked to an investigation into Israel's interception of a Gaza-bound protest flotilla in spring 2026 and earlier allegations of genocide in Gaza. In response, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) issued a strong condemnation, calling Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan "an antisemitic dictator who has massacred Kurds, harbors Hamas terrorists, occupies half of Cyprus, and jails record numbers of journalists." The PMO stated, "Israel has long ceased to be impressed by Turkey’s hypocrisy" and will not tolerate Turkey's attempts to extend aggression into Syria. Israel's international spokesman, Doron Spielman, further highlighted Turkey's "substantial military presence" in northwestern Syria, asserting that Israel "will not allow Turkey to entrench itself in Syria and to be moving steadily south toward Israel’s border." Defense Minister Israel Katz confirmed Israeli airstrikes in Idlib, Syria, as a countermeasure against Turkish force deployment, stating Erdoğan "was caught with his hand in the cookie jar and was forced to back down."
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