Turkish president calls on international community to stop Israel after the Jeiwh State took action to protect Syria’s Druze community.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan condemned Israel’s recent actions in Syria, accusing the Jewish State of attempting to reignite the Syrian civil war
“Israel is trying to provoke certain groups in Syria to ignite new conflicts, because it is worried about the possibility of the civil war in Syria ending,” Erdoğan claimed.
During a visit to Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus on Saturday, Erdoğan called on the international community to “extinguish the fireball caused by Israel.”
On Thursday night, the IDF struck the Presidential Palace compound in Damascus as part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s directive to take strong action to protect the Druze in Syria in recent days.
Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz stated that the strike in Damascus was meant to send “a clear message to the Syrian regime. We will not permit Syrian troops to move south of Damascus or any threat to the Druze community.”
Israel has brought multiple Druze citizens of Syria to Israeli hospitals for medical treatment and has acted to provide humanitarian aid to Druze communities in Syria over the last week.
Two Turkish F-16 fighter planes entered Syrian airspace as the IAF was carrying out airstrikes in the country in an attempt to warn the Israeli aircraft off.
The strikes came amid clashes in Syria, sparked by the circulation of an audio recording attributed to a Druze citizen and deemed blasphemous.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor, said on Thursday the fighting had involved security forces, allied fighters and local Druze groups.
It added that 102 have died so far in the clashes, including 30 government loyalists, 21 Druze fighters and 10 civilians.
The United States on Thursday condemned the violence against Syria’s Druze community, calling on the country’s interim authorities to hold perpetrators accountable.
