Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on Wednesday strongly condemned Israeli police raids at Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem.
Speaking to reporters in Brussels following a NATO international ministers assembly, Çavuşoğlu stated that Israel had “violated” the sanctity of the compound throughout the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and “took a step that would disrupt its historical status.”
On Wednesday, Israeli police stated they detained 350 Palestinians from the Al-Aqsa Mosque complicated, with witnesses saying they used extreme drive, together with tear gasoline.
Israel occupied East Jerusalem throughout the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. It annexed the complete metropolis in 1980, a transfer by no means acknowledged by the worldwide neighborhood.
“We had warned them to prevent such provocations, especially during Ramadan,” throughout Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen’s go to to Türkiye following the Feb. 6 earthquakes in Turkiye and his assembly with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Çavuşoğlu added.
“Israel should end such attacks immediately,” he added.
Noting {that a} “dialogue” course of with Israel has restarted, Çavuşoğlu stated: “But our engagement with Israel certainly cannot come at the expense of the Palestinian cause.” He added: “In that regard, we never compromise our principles or our beliefs.”
Following the lethal quakes, Israel was one of many first international locations to ship help to Türkiye.
EGYPT’S FOREIGN MINISTER TO VISIT TÜRKİYE
Çavuşoğlu additionally stated that he agreed in precept to satisfy along with his Egyptian counterpart Shoukry in Türkiye throughout the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which ends in late April.
Last month, Çavuşoğlu and Shoukry spoke on the cellphone to schedule his go to to Türkiye.
The two additionally gave one another greatest needs for the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Turkish diplomatic sources stated.
Earlier final month, Çavuşoğlu and Shoukry met within the capital Cairo, the place the 2 mentioned bilateral relations and regional and worldwide points, and agreed to maximise diplomatic ties.
Diplomatic relations between Türkiye and Egypt have been on the degree of fees d’affaires on each side since Egypt’s 2013 navy coup, which overthrew then-President Mohammed Morsi.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
