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By All Israel NewsMonday, April 13, 2026Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan looks on as Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (not pictured) addresses the media during a joint press conference at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, on Feb. 11, 2026.<\/span> | Adem ALTAN\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan continued his sharp rhetoric against Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the past couple of days, comparing the prime minister to Hitler, and saying he is \u201cblinded by blood and hatred.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Erdo\u011fan\u2019s remarks came during the International Conference of Asia Political Parties (ICAPP) Women\u2019s branch in Istanbul over the weekend. There, he repeated previous claims that Israel is a \u201cgenocidal\u201d entity, as he addressed the delegates.\u00a0<\/p>\n One of the claims that he repeated at the conference, as he spoke about the treatment of women, is that casualties from the Oct. 7 Gaza War were primarily women and children, saying \u201cthe vast majority of the more than 72,000 civilians brutally murdered by Israel in Gaza were women and children.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n The Gaza Health Ministry estimates that 72,000 people in total died during the conflict. In its death tolls during the Gaza war, the ministry does not distinguish between deaths due to the war or deaths from other causes, such as existing medical conditions, illness, or other reasons. Additionally, the GHM does not distinguish between civilians and militants in its figures.\u00a0<\/p>\n Independent analyses of the GHM figures show that, along with widespread discrepancies, around half of all deaths are men, the majority of whom are combat-age men.\u00a0<\/p>\n Erdo\u011fan also accused Israel of crimes in Lebanon, saying, \u201cOn the day the ceasefire was declared, Israel brutally murdered 254 Lebanese. This genocidal network, blinded by blood and hatred, continues to kill innocent children, women, and civilians, disregarding all human values and ignoring all rules and principles.\u00a0<\/p>\n He continued his attack by claiming that the recently approved death penalty law for terrorism in Israel is \u201conly for Palestinian prisoners,\u201d calling it a form of \u201capartheid\u201d and asking, \u201cis there a fundamental difference between Hitler\u2019s monstrous policies towards Jews and the decision taken by the Israeli parliament?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Erdo\u011fan\u2019s comments come as Turkish prosecutors are reportedly seeking almost4,600 years\u00a0of prison time for 35 Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Netanyahu, Defense Minister Israel Katz, and others, over the interception of the anti-Israel\u00a0October 2025 \u201cSumud\u201d Flotilla.\u00a0<\/p>\n On Saturday evening, Prime Minister Netanyahu made his own criticism of Erdo\u011fan on social media, writing, “Israel under my leadership will continue to fight Iran\u2019s terror regime and its proxies, unlike Erdogan, who accommodates them and massacred his own Kurdish citizens.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Netanyahu was apparently referring to Turkey\u2019s hosting of several Hamas leaders, its statements of support for Iran since the start of the war, and its repeated attacks on Kurdish civilians, both inside Turkey and in northern Syria.\u00a0<\/p>\n On Sunday, Erdo\u011fan responded with more belligerent rhetoric, saying that Turkey could decide to confront Israel militarily, according to reports in several news outlets, including\u00a0The Jerusalem Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe must be strong to prevent Israel from doing this to Palestine,\u201d Erdogan was reported to have told reporters on Sunday, again accusing Israel of war crimes.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cJust as we entered Karabakh, just as we entered Libya, we will do the same to them,\u201d he added. \u201cThere is nothing to prevent us from doing it. We just need to be strong so that we can take these steps. There is no reason not to do it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Israeli Heritage Minister\u00a0Amichai Eliyahu responded to the Turkish provocation on social media, writing, \u201cTurkey, which conquered Northern Cyprus and controls Kurdish territories in the east, dares to lecture us on morality.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cTurkey, which built its economy on the Armenian Genocide, dares to accuse us of genocide,\u201d he continued. He went on to note that Jews have been falsely accused of many crimes throughout history, saying, \u201cAlways after every ‘trial,’ we came back stronger.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cAnd so it will be against this megalomaniacal dictator with imperialist ambitions who thinks to be an Ottoman Sultan, while he is no more than a pathetic tyrant of a country with a collapsing economy and a dead democracy,\u201d Eliyahu wrote, saying that he would \u201cdemand from the foreign minister and the prime minister to close the embassy and consulate immediately.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n This article was originally published at All Israel News\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Israeli heritage minister calls for severing all diplomatic ties with Turkey after outburst by Erdogan By All Israel NewsMonday, April 13, 2026Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan looks on as Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (not pictured) addresses the media during a joint press conference at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, on Feb. 11, 2026. |<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[8915,168,457,4755,1136],"class_list":{"0":"post-26763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-christian-living","8":"tag-erdogan","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-netanyahu","11":"tag-renews","12":"tag-rhetoric"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}