{"id":539329,"date":"2025-10-31T07:18:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T07:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/539329\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T07:18:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T07:18:20","slug":"erdogan-questions-germanys-silence-on-israels-gaza-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/539329\/","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan questions Germany\u2019s silence on Israel\u2019s Gaza attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized Israel\u2019s attacks on Gaza and urged Germany to take action during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Ankara on Thursday. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Erdogan said Israel has killed over 68,500 people, mostly women and children, since October 2023. \u201cGermany, don\u2019t you see this?\u201d he asked, highlighting that Hamas has no nuclear weapons while Israel does, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/europe\/turkish-president-erdogan-questions-germany-s-silence-on-israel-s-gaza-attacks\/3731010\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Turkish media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed support for a two-state solution and called for international cooperation to end the humanitarian crisis. Erdogan also condemned ongoing blockades that prevent food aid from reaching Gaza, noting that <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/magnitude-42-earthquake-jolts-western-turkiye\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">T\u00fcrkiye<\/a> has sent over 100,000 tons of aid but more is urgently needed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContinued aid deliveries are essential. We must stop the deliberate starvation and killings in Gaza,\u201d he said, calling for collaboration between Germany\u2019s Red Cross and T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s Red Crescent.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized Israel\u2019s attacks on Gaza and urged Germany to take action during a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[42056,2000,299,2194,1824,837,34115],"class_list":{"0":"post-539329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-erdogan","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-gaza","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-merz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115467564010096330","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}