Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Israel said Saturday that it was recalling its diplomats from Turkey over "increasingly harsh statements" coming from the government in Ankara.

The announcement came after Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, told a massive protest crowd in Istanbul that his government was preparing to declare Israel a "war criminal" due to its actions in the Gaza Strip. 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan used a pro-Palestinian rally in Istanbul to lament the loss of Ottoman Empire territories, which he said were "as much a part of us as our blood, our life and our love."

The ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) organized a large rally in solidarity with Palestine, on Oct. 28 at Atatürk Airport.

The rally aimed to draw attention to what the organizers have described as "Israeli brutality" in the region.

President and AKP leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attended the rally.

Hamas is a terrorist organization that does not express the Palestinian people, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told reporters on Friday, after the end of a two-day EU Summit in Brussels.

The developments in the world and in the region demonstrate once again the importance of the Organization of Turkic States, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said, praising the growing ties between Türkiye and Turkmenistan.

Greece and Turkey are reportedly on the brink of an agreement that will institutionalize a solution to the migration problem, which is an open wound for both countries.

Concerns about Türkiye's economic program are misplaced, Treasury and Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek has said, reiterating that the economic team has the backing of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

"Türkiye is back with a new program and a new team. Political uncertainties are out of the way," Şimşek told a panel at the Future Investment Initiative (FII) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

David Harris, former CEO of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) and Vice Chair for Global Affairs at the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) in a post on platform X on Thursday condemned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for calling Hamas a liberation group. 

Harris went on to state that "Erdogan can't be trusted."

Türkiye's Defense Ministry has confirmed that Turkish forces conducted a targeted airstrike against 19 PKK locations in northern Iraq.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan discussed the Israeli-Hamas war with Pope Francis on Thursday, telling the head of the Catholic Church that Israel's attacks on Gaza have "reached the level of a massacre" and that the international community's silence was a "shame for humanity."