Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has said that any attack on Lebanon or Iran will be regarded as an attack on Turkiye.
According to Arab media reports, Erdogan, speaking on the situation in the Middle East and the ongoing tensions, said the escalating war-like conditions in the region were deeply alarming.
He said Israel must stop “playing with fire” or face a severe lesson, and urged it to refrain from creating obstacles in the path of peace. "Any strike on Lebanon or Iran, would be treated as a strike on Turkiye," he said.
The Turkish president said Israel would have to pay the price for sabotaging regional peace. If negotiations failed, he said, action against Israel would become a duty. He added that, as Turkiye had entered Karabakh and Libya, it could act in a similar manner in Israel.
Erdogan said that had Pakistan not been engaged in mediation, such a step would already have been taken. He said Benjamin Netanyahu had become blind in blood and hatred, and that cases of war crimes would be registered against the Israeli Prime Minister.
He said that even during days of ceasefire, Israel had shed the blood of hundreds of unarmed and innocent Lebanese civilians.
