Turkish foreign minister responds to Israeli counterpart’s criticism of Turkey

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan called his Israeli counterpart Israel Katz a “monument to insolence”, in response to Katz’s statements in which he slammed Turkey.

“It is a complete sickness that Israel Katz, instead of serving as the minister of foreign affairs, constantly makes our country and our president the subject of his own delusions,” wrote Fidan in a post on X.

This comes after Katz has written a scathing post on X in which he accused President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of “turning Turkey into a dictatorship just because of his support for the murderers and rapists of Hamas, against the stance of the entire free world”.

He said that Erdogan is “threatening to invade a democratic country [Israel] with which Turkey has no military conflict, and cutting trade relations, harming Turkish exporters to the tune of $6 billion a year”.