Turkey’s arrest warrants targeting Netanyahu signal Erdoğan’s escalating lawfare, which India must confront before similar attacks hit Modi and Indian officials.
On 7 November 2025, a Turkish state court issued arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and 36 senior Israeli officials, accusing them of genocide. The allegations are baseless — a theatrical political assault engineered entirely by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who dreams of positioning himself as the leader of the world’s 200 crore Muslims, including the 22 crore living in India.
India cannot dismiss this manufactured outrage as a distant geopolitical sideshow. What Erdoğan weaponises against Israel today, he will inevitably attempt against India tomorrow. This is not diplomacy — it is ideological warfare. Erdoğan behaves like a belligerent drunk encouraged by sycophants, growing more dangerous each time he escapes real consequences. He may not share Atatürk’s alcoholism, but he mirrors the same authoritarian zeal — minus the strategic restraint.
If Erdoğan succeeds in dragging Israelis into pseudo-courts on fabricated charges, his Pakistani, Qatari and Malaysian partners will use this “lawfare” template to target Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Indian diplomats, military officers, and anyone seen as standing in the way of their Kashmir or Khalistan agendas.
Some Indians — elite diplomats, academics, and left-wing circles — have swallowed Turkey’s propaganda whole, echoing “genocide” claims without examining basic facts. But by every measurable standard, the Gaza war was not genocide. In fact, Gaza’s population increased during the conflict — a historical impossibility if genocide were occurring. Israel carried out targeted strikes after evacuating civilians, achieving the lowest civilian-to-combatant ratio in any urban conflict — one-tenth the ratio of Russia’s war in Chechnya and less than half that of the U.S.-led Battle of Mosul.
Meanwhile, Erdoğan is silent about the world’s deadliest conflict — the Sudan civil war — and enriches himself by selling weapons to Ukraine while helping Russia dodge sanctions. His outrage is selective, self-serving, and weaponised solely against non-Muslim nations.
The Gaza Numbers Were Always Fake — and Erdoğan Knows It
The entire “genocide” myth relies on casualty figures from the so-called Gaza Health Ministry, which is simply Hamas by another name. These numbers are unverified, inflated, and used as propaganda — similar to the notorious lie from the 1990s that five lakh Iraqi children died due to sanctions. That figure came from a UNICEF report that relied on data manufactured by Saddam Hussein’s regime. Neutral UN agencies later found that the primary causes of death were diabetes and heart disease, not starvation.
Turkey’s Own Atrocities: A Record Erdoğan Tries to Bury
The irony is staggering. Erdoğan invokes “genocide” while sitting atop a state founded on some of the worst mass atrocities of the 20th century:
- The genocide of 15 lakh Armenians, still denied by Ankara.
- Decades of slaughter, suppression, and cultural erasure of Kurdish civilians, including outlawing Kurdish letters and razing neighbourhoods in Diyarbakir, Mardin and Cizre.
- A slow-motion cultural genocide in northern Cyprus, where Erdoğan imposes mainland Turkish Islamist norms on more liberal Muslim Cypriots.
He even defended Sudan’s dictator Omar al-Bashir, saying “a Muslim cannot commit genocide.” In Erdoğan’s worldview, atrocities are defined not by actions but by religion:
- Muslim perpetrators = “resistance”
- Jewish or Hindu self-defence = “genocide.”
It is hypocrisy elevated to state doctrine.
Why India Must Respond — Strongly
India suffers directly from terrorism carried out by groups that Turkey openly supports or endorses — from Pakistan-based Kashmiri militants to AQIS networks. New Delhi cannot simply watch Erdoğan’s “lawfare” attacks unfold against Israel and hope to be spared.
If Indian courts issue counter-charges of genocide against Erdoğan for:
- Armenian genocide denial
- Kurdish persecution and mass killings
- demographic engineering in Cyprus
- and Turkey’s support for terror groups targeting India
— it will both uphold moral clarity and put Ankara on notice.
India must show that it will not allow Erdoğan to weaponise international law against democracies while shielding his own crimes under religious rhetoric.
What Erdoğan attempts against Israel today is a test run.
If unchecked, he will aim the same legal weapons at India next.
