Turkey has sought an international arrest warrant for Israel\u2019s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing him of \u201cgenocide\u201d linked to Israel\u2019s interception of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, the justice minister announced Friday.<\/p>\n
Turkey has become a virulent critic of Israel\u2019s war in Gaza, sparked by Hamas\u2019s October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has frequently accused Netanyahu of \u201cgenocide\u201d.<\/p>\n
Israel\u2019s interception of the flotilla carrying some 430 activists in May sparked an international outcry. France, Italy and Australia have also launched judicial proceedings.<\/p>\n
Turkey\u2019s Justice Minister Akin Gurlek said on social media that his ministry had asked the interior ministry to issue an Interpol red notice for Netanyahu and another Israeli, named as Afek Moskovitch.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs part of the judicial proceedings concerning the attack in international waters on the Flotilla activists and in accordance with the arrest warrants issued on July 14, 2026, against Benjamin Netanyahu and Afek Moskovitch for \u2018genocide\u2019, the Ministry of Justice has requested that the Ministry of the Interior issue red notices for their international arrest,\u201d the minister stated.<\/p>\n
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Netanyahu and Moskovitch are being prosecuted for \u201ccrimes against humanity, genocide, aggravated deprivation of liberty, \u2018intentional assault and battery\u2019, torture, destruction of property, aggravated looting, and hijacking of transport vehicles,\u201d the ministry said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turkey has sought an international arrest warrant for Israel\u2019s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing him of \u201cgenocide\u201d linked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[71359,41620,41,496,7889,23848,1411,43215,37,71358,384,3988,1176],"class_list":["post-259410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-afek-moskovitch","tag-arrest-warrant","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-global-sumud-flotilla","tag-hamas","tag-interpol","tag-israel","tag-israels-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-italy","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","tag-turkey"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117134870934480065","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}