\n
\n
\n
ANKARA, Turkey, 7 Aug (AP) \u2014 Turkey will file a request with a U.N. court on Wednesday to join South Africa\u2019s genocide lawsuit against Israel, a Turkish official said.<\/p>\n
Turkey\u2019s ambassador to the the Netherlands will submit a declaration of intervention to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Foreign Ministry spokesman Oncu Keceli said.<\/p>\n
Turkey, one of the fiercest critics of Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza, will become the latest nation to seek to participate in the case.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo country in the world is above international law,\u201d Keceli said in a post on X. \u201cThe case at the International Court of Justice is extremely important in terms of ensuring that the crimes committed by Israel do not go unpunished.\u201d<\/p>\n
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Israel of genocide, called for it to be punished in international courts and criticized Western nations for backing Israel.<\/p>\n
In May, Turkey suspended trade with Israel, citing its assault on Gaza. In contrast to Western nations that have designated Hamas as a terrorist organization, Erdogan has commended the group, calling it a liberation movement.<\/p>\n
South Africa brought a case to the International Court of Justice late last year, accusing Israel of violating the genocide convention through its military operations in Gaza.<\/p>\n
Israel has strongly rejected accusations of genocide and has argued that the war in Gaza is a legitimate defensive action against Hamas militants for their Oct. 7 attack in southern Israel that killed around 1,200 people and took 250 hostages.<\/p>\n
Nicaragua, Colombia, Libya, Mexico, Spain and Palestinian officials have sought to join the case. The court\u2019s decision on their requests is still pending.<\/p>\n
If admitted to the case, the countries would be able to make written submissions and speak at public hearings.<\/p>\n
Preliminary hearings have already been held in the genocide case against Israel, but the court is expected to take years to reach a final decision.<\/p>\n
Keceli, meanwhile, called for the immediate implementations of precautionary measures ordered by the court, including a halt to military offensive and an increase in humanitarian aid to Gaza.<\/p>\n
Former allies Turkey and Israel have experienced a volatile relationship since Erdogan took power in 2003, marked by periods of severe friction and reconciliation. The war in Gaza disrupted the most recent attempts at normalizing ties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ANKARA, Turkey, 7 Aug (AP) \u2014 Turkey will file a request with a U.N. court on Wednesday to join South Africa\u2019s genocide lawsuit against Israel, a Turkish official said. Turkey\u2019s ambassador to the the Netherlands will submit a declaration of intervention to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Foreign Ministry spokesman Oncu Keceli […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-245866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}