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Turkiye announced connected Friday (November 8, 2025) that it had issued apprehension warrants for genocide against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and elder officials successful his authorities implicit the warfare successful Gaza.
The announcement was met with a steadfast rebuttal from Israel. Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said Israel “firmly rejects, with contempt” the charges, calling them “the latest PR stunt by the tyrant (Turkish President Recep Tayyip) Erdogan”.
The Istanbul prosecutor’s bureau said successful a connection that a full of 37 suspects were targeted by the apprehension warrants, without providing a afloat list.
They see Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and service main Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir.
Turkiye has accused the officials of “genocide and crimes against humanity” that Israel has “perpetrated systematically” successful Gaza.
The connection besides refers to the “Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital”, built by Turkiye successful the Gaza Strip and bombed by Israel successful March.
Turkiye, which has been 1 of the astir vocal critics of the warfare successful Gaza, past twelvemonth joined South Africa’s lawsuit accusing Israel of genocide astatine the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
A fragile ceasefire has been successful unit successful the devastated Palestinian territory since October 10 arsenic portion of US President Donald Trump’s determination bid plan.
The Islamist militant radical Hamas welcomed Turkiye’s announcement, calling it a “commendable measurement (confirming) the sincere positions of the Turkish radical and their leaders, who are committed to the values of justice, humanity and fraternity that hindrance them to our oppressed Palestinian people”.
Stabilisation force
Saar said successful his station successful English connected the societal media level X that “in Erdogan’s Turkiye, the judiciary has agelong since go a instrumentality for silencing governmental rivals and detaining journalists, judges and mayors”.
He added that the Istanbul prosecutor’s bureau “recently orchestrated the apprehension of the Mayor of Istanbul simply for daring to tally against Erdogan”, referring to Ekrem Imamoglu, who was detained successful March.
Israel’s erstwhile overseas curate Avigdor Lieberman wrote connected X that the apprehension warrants for elder Israeli officials “clearly explicate wherefore Turkiye should not beryllium contiguous successful the Gaza Strip -- straight oregon indirectly”.
Turkiye wants to instrumentality portion successful the planetary stabilisation unit intended to play a relation successful post-war Gaza, according to Trump’s plan.
But Ankara’s efforts, which see expanding diplomatic contacts successful the portion and seeking to power the pro-Israel stance of the United States, are viewed unfavourably successful Israel, which considers Turkiye excessively adjacent to Hamas.
Israeli leaders person repeatedly expressed their absorption to immoderate Turkish information successful the planetary stabilisation unit successful Gaza.
Israel has rejected arsenic “false” and “antisemitic” accusations of genocide from a UN-mandated commission, respective NGOs and immoderate countries.
