Turkish elections are coming up. They won't risk their NATO membership so this is just bluster from an autocratic regime.
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Sometimes awful people do the right thing for their own awful reasons.
Doesn't stop it from being the right thing.
It's the right thing
But don't expect someone like Erdogan of all people to suddenly do the right thing. At least I'm not getting my hopes up you know. Erdogan is a bastard too.
Yeah, totally with you on the fact that Erdogan is a bastard and a tyrant who doesn't deserve any praise or trust for doing the right thing only when it suits his own selfish ends.
That doesn't stop issuing domestic arrest warrants on war criminals and asking for international ones from objectively and unambiguously being the right thing, though.
Erdogan sees Israel as competition in the region and a threat to Turkey's security. He's not in it to do the right thing.
Wasn’t it the Israeli defense minister that had publicly said Türkiye was their next target to seize land from?
Their Greater Israel plan has always includes a small piece of Türkiye
Kind of feels like the Israel experiment needs to end. They’re so belligerent and out of control. All their support needs to be cut so they are forced to work with their neighbors instead of bombing them
It is all political theatre. Erdoğan has been parading Trump as his best friend and closest ally. I think anyone with a pound of brain can see the contradiction here. So I don't expect them to carry it through with much vigour.
Not to mention they have been in close trade relations with Israel until recently and only stopped because it came to light. God knows what is still going on behind closed doors.
This doesn't risk their NATO membership at all. Why would it? They're an important strategic ally. Jailing a genocidal war criminal wouldn't change that much. The US might even support using him as a fall guy if that keeps popular support for Israel as a state.
You underestimate how intertwined the US and Israel really are and how much political damage it would do to allow this to happen to anyone in the US who can be held responsible for it. There is not a chance in hell they'll have Netanyahu on the chopping block if they can help it.
Frankly, mass murder of civilians or whoever the fuck should automatically be grounds for a fucking Interpol warrant, whether it’s technically genocide or not. I’m tired of this legalistic beating around the bush. People aren’t flies in a swarm to wallop all at once for your mighty agenda. Fuck you. Benjamin Netanyahu deserves to be tortured alive for as long as possible, drawing out the excruciating agony for years and years. That’s what he deserves. That would maybe approach justice. And there are others also. Fuck them. This disgusting shit show needs to stop.
They would deny it's mass murder if that was the big accusation.
There's no real debate, all genocide and even Israeli Holocaust historians have called it a genocide, all legal experts on genocide have called it a genocide, and of course your own lying eyeballs have shown you the intent they displayed. We're not debating facts, it's all the experts on one side and all the guilty parties and their AI and their captured media on the other side.
You can have Raz Segal describe it as a textbook case of genocide a few days into it, and you still have disgusting reporters shutting people down on air to claim factually there's only a genocide against Jews today.
It seems like Israel and Western allies are trying hard to link all the genocide on the scapegoat, including Ben Gavier guy, who been working hard to look worst than Netanyahu so Netanyahu looks like a better option to run the government.
So let's not forget the Nuremberg principles:
The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him.
Soldiers, politicians, business should also be hunt down
If Ben-Gvir and Smotrich want to be first to the gallows, let them. Netanyahu can be third.
Honestly. The fact that Israel isn't taking this generous offer to wipe its hands clean just speaks of how far gone many Isrealis are. For example, Bibi's main contender could campaign on handing him over to the ICC. Instead he does this: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-politics/2026-07-22/ty-article/.premium/israeli-opposition-leader-eisenkot-blasts-mamdani-over-netanyahu-arrest-call/0000019f-88eb-ded0-abdf-aeeb3f950000
Prominent anti-Netanyahu bloc frontrunner Gadi Eisenkot says the New York City mayor is attempting to 'rewrite history' after calling on the U.S. government to enforce the ICC arrest warrant against Netanyahu
Turkey trying to wash away their own sins it seems
Being right for their own awful reasons is still being right 🤷🏻
What they did to armenians is despicable
That still doesn’t change Israel is a terrorist state being led by a war criminal who should be arrested.
Good on Turkiye!
Yeah, Turkey knows a genocide when it sees one!
I stand with Turkiye!
Just a fact.
Anyone knows what an interpol warrant would mean in this case?
Rush Hour 5
Erdogan has come a long way from kissing Natanyahu's ass. Has he started getting better baksheesh from other sources?
Erdogan is still yapping while kneeling for Netanyahu. Selling oil to Israel and everything else but slightly rebranded. Business as usual.
The interpol arrest warrant will likely never materialize either.