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Turkiye has sought an international arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing him of “genocide” for Israel’s attack in May on activists aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla for Gaza.
In a post on X on Friday, Turkish Justice Minister Akin Gurlek said arrest warrants had been issued on July 14 for Netanyahu and another suspect. Charges included genocide, crimes against humanity and torture, as part of a case against 35 people over the Israeli interception in international waters.
“In line with the arrest warrants issued against Benjamin Netanyahu … our justice ministry has requested that the interior ministry issue [Interpol] red notices for them so that they may be sought internationally,” Gurlek said.
Turkiye will use all available legal mechanisms to ensure Israel is held accountable for its crimes in Gaza, he added.
NATO member Turkiye has been one of the fiercest critics of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and has previously issued domestic arrest warrants for Netanyahu over its attacks.
Turkiye has also repeatedly called for international measures against Israel for what Ankara calls its violations of human rights and international law. Israel denies those charges.
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Turkish elections are coming up. They won’t risk their NATO membership so this is just bluster from an autocratic regime.
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
