There will be no peace in the Middle East unless a Palestinian state is established, warned Turkey’s foreign minister.
“Palestinians are denied a state… “But until a Palestinian state is established, no one in that region will have peace,” Fidan remarked in a new magazine interview published this week.
Fidan told Bosnian and Herzegovina magazine Stav that the “tragedy” in Gaza did not begin on October 7, when Israel launched a months-long war on the Gaza Strip. Instead, that date is “a manifestation of a problem that has been ignored.”
Fidan, citing the problem as the years-long occupation of Palestinian areas, stated that “Israel isn’t giving up its habit of seizing Palestinian land.”
According to Fidan, Israel has ravaged Gaza under the pretext of maintaining its own security, killing everyone regardless of age or gender, including children, the elderly, and women.
Fidan stated that the cruelty in Gaza illustrates the breakdown of the current world system, emphasizing that all essential humanitarian standards have been violated in Gaza and that the delivery of humanitarian supplies has been obstructed.
“Israel has zero tolerance for Palestinians. This is reinforced by Israel’s efforts to cripple the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which provides critical services to Palestinian refugees,” he continued.
Fidan described the 1995 genocide of thousands of Muslims in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, as a “horrific massacre” in the heart of Europe over three decades ago, claiming it “has gone down as a dark stain on human history.”
“We are witnessing a new Srebrenica in Gaza.” “The West, particularly Europe, is once again on the wrong side,” Fidan stated, emphasizing that the perpetrators of the murder in Gaza should not go free.
Fidan also restated Turkey’s support for South Africa’s genocide case against Israel before the International Court of Justice.