Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called out Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan by name at the United Nation...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called out Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan by name at the United Nations General Assembly, accusing him of illegally occupying northern Cyprus and "regularly transgressing against Greece, a NATO member." Netanyahu labeled Turkey a "super-spreader of antisemitic lies" and called Erdogan a "tyrant" in the address. He accused Erdogan of hosting Hamas leaders, killing thousands of Kurdish civilians, denying the Armenian genocide, jailing journalists, and wanting to take over Syria. On Jerusalem, Netanyahu fired back at what he described as Erdogan's ambition to rule the city, saying bluntly: "This is our country, our city, our capital." The speech covered a wide range of fronts, but the direct naming of Turkey over Cyprus and Greece was notable coming from a sitting Israeli prime minister at the UN podium. Netanyahu described the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack as "the worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust" and said Israel had since dealt "crippling blows" to Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Iran, and Iranian-backed militias across Iraq and Syria. He also alluded to the September 2024 pager explosions that killed 42 Hezbollah operatives and wounded up to 4,000 across Lebanon and Syria. Israel and the United States, Netanyahu said, had struck Iranian military and nuclear facilities during that period. He framed Israel's three years of fighting as a survival war that its enemies had tried and failed to win. #Cyprus #Netanyahu #Erdogan