ISTANBUL, Turkey
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Wednesday that Turkiye would join in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
“Upon completion of the legal
text of our work, we will submit the declaration of official intervention
before the ICJ with the objective of implementing this political decision,”
Fidan said in a joint press conference with Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Retno
Marsudi in Ankara.
“Turkiye will continue to
support the Palestinian people in all circumstances,” he said.
The ICJ ordered Israel in
January to refrain from any acts that could fall under the Genocide Convention
and to ensure its troops commit no genocidal acts against Palestinians, after
South Africa accused Israel of state-led genocide in Gaza.
In January, President Tayyip
Erdogan said that Turkiye was providing documents for the case at the ICJ, also
known as the World Court.
Israel and its Western allies
described the allegation as baseless. A final ruling in South Africa’s ICJ case
in The Hague could take years.
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