German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has sided with Israel in its diplomatic spat with Turkey, slamming recent comments made by his Turkish counterpart, Hakan Fidan, as “utterly inappropriate.”<\/p>\n
Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar on Thursday posted a video on X of an interview given by Fidan to the CNN T\u00fcrk broadcaster with an English translation.<\/p>\n
According to the translation, Fidan said Israel’s politics and mindset had “become a burden that humanity can no longer bear.”<\/p>\n
Fidan also described Israel as one of “humanity’s common problems” and called for international pressure on the country.<\/p>\n
In his post on X, Saar described the remarks as “nauseating” and said they “constitute clear incitement to genocide.”<\/p>\n
In comments released on Sunday, Wadephul told Germany’s Bild tabloid that “Israel faces an ongoing threat from the region and has the right and duty to protect its population.”<\/p>\n
He said he would travel to Israel to meet Saar before the NATO summit in Turkey, which begins on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Criticism also came from The Left parliamentary group in Germany’s lower house, with its foreign policy spokeswoman, Cansu \u00d6zdemir, describing Fidan’s remarks as “dehumanizing and extremely dangerous.”<\/p>\n
Fidan’s remarks were prompted by Israel’s formal recognition of the Armenian genocide under the Ottoman Empire, which is rejected by the empire’s successor state Turkey.<\/p>\n
The Turkish government described Israel’s recognition as a political act of retaliation and a diversionary tactic. President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan said that Israel was attempting to “cover up its own crimes” and to smear Turkey with slander, according to the state news agency Anadolu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has sided with Israel in its diplomatic spat with Turkey, slamming recent comments…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4368,473,5,9665,20356,57,468,788,20467],"class_list":["post-48836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-counterpart","tag-german-foreign-minister","tag-germany","tag-gideon-saar","tag-hakan-fidan","tag-israel","tag-johann-wadephul","tag-turkey","tag-turkish-counterpart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}