Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar met Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe in Jerusalem on Monday and said Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan's recent remarks are 'a clear call to genocide,' according to an N12 report.
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar met Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe in Jerusalem on Monday afternoon, and used the platform to again condemn the rhetoric of his Turkish counterpart, Hakan Fidan. According to an N12 report, Sa'ar described Fidan's remarks as 'a clear call to genocide,' escalating his previous criticism.
The meeting with the Rwandan foreign minister comes amid a sustained diplomatic campaign by Sa'ar against Ankara. Israel's recognition of the Armenian Genocide last week, a process Sa'ar championed, was widely viewed as a direct response to the hostile statements from Turkish President Erdogan and his senior officials. The Knesset is expected to vote on parliamentary endorsement of the recognition next week.
This is not the first time Sa'ar has leveled the genocide accusation at Fidan. On Friday, Sa'ar condemned Fidan's remarks as 'sickening incitement to genocide,' according to a Zioneer report. Monday's statement, delivered in the presence of a visiting African foreign minister, reinforces the diplomatic isolation Israel is seeking to impose on Turkey over its increasingly bellicose rhetoric.
The precise content or timing of the Turkish remarks Sa'ar is referring to has not been fully quoted in the report, but the accusation fits a pattern of intensifying public confrontation between the two countries.
2 developments
- DevelopingTurkey's FM says Israelis are 'a burden humanity can no longer bear'
- DevelopingSa'ar condemns Turkish FM Fidan's 'sickening' remarks as incitement to genocide
- StrongGermany condemns Turkish FM Fidan's 'blatantly unfounded' remarks; minister to visit Israel
- DevelopingAnalysis: Turkish FM Fidan's antisemitic tirade underscores Ankara as Israel's next strategic threat
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