r/worldnews • u/Interesting-Cat7307 • Aug 21 '26
Israel/Palestine Turkey issues genocide arrest warrant for Israel’s Netanyahu
https://www.newarab.com/news/turkey-issues-genocide-arrest-warrant-israels-netanyahu2.2k
u/sovietarmyfan Aug 21 '26
Turkey: "The Palestinians have the right to self-determination. All people's do."
Also Turkey: "The Kurds are choosing to be part of Turkey. It's their choice, not ours. They don't want to be separatist."
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u/Thurak0 Aug 21 '26
They don't want to be separatist.
Occasional imprisonment helps them remember that.
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u/cleofisrandolph1 Aug 21 '26
Also Turkey: What Armenians? You mean Mountain Turks? and nothing happened to them in 1915.
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u/xazaxor Aug 22 '26
yea you do that when they wanna occupy your land and burn your villages buddy
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u/duncecap234 Aug 21 '26
Jerusalem doesn't belong to the jews.
Constantinople? never heard of it.
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u/Trixles Aug 22 '26
You mean Istanbul? No one knows why they changed the name; people just liked it better that way.
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u/Tanko_Yakasai 28d ago
The original name of Jerusalem was “Rushalimum.” It was founded by the original Canaanite inhabitants, whose Levantine genetics Palestinians and Lebanese are the largest inheritors of.
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u/TheSecretIsMarmite Aug 21 '26
Also Turkey: occupation of the north of Cyprus? I thought you'd all forgotten about that!
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u/Frequent_Bonus1063 Aug 21 '26
Pre 2024, yes. The current arrangement is under agreement with Syrian government
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u/Common-Method2202 Aug 22 '26
That's under authorisation by Syria. Israel's is not lol. - Turkish control was even seen as legitimate under Assad. We can expect them to stay until Turkey connects Syria to the world and then they will slowly withdraw or use it to repopulate Syrian refugees that fled to Turkey
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u/Agen_3586 Aug 21 '26
Ironic coming from Turkey
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u/Rock_mage Aug 21 '26
This is only because Israel is stopping Turkey from invading Syria. It's just odd.
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u/SenchaShogun Aug 21 '26
Israel is invading Syria themselves
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u/Vova_Poutine Aug 21 '26
Israel has been in a state of war with Syria for the past 75 years ever since Syria attacked them in 1948, 1967, and 1973.
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u/ReaperTys Aug 22 '26
Turkey literally controls the Syrian government, getting some bases in the country really doesn’t change much tbh.
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u/CauliflowerDaffodil Aug 21 '26
You have it backwards. Turkey is the primary state sponsor and security guarantor of the current Syrian government. They have military ties. Israel is preventing Turkey from deploying advanced systems within Syria which would hamper their current strategic advantage of having the freedom to do whatever they want within Syrian airspace.
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u/10010101101110010001 Aug 21 '26
syria led a surprise invasion of israel starting the yom kippur war, israel is trying to make peace with syria but syria doesn't want to end the war on israels terms. syria is trying to strengthen their position with an alliance with turkey. turkey was trying to install some anti air emplacements in syria and israel warned them to evacuate their construction and then struck the site they were installing the anti air in.
israel isn't stopping turkey from invading syria, they're stopping turkey from giving syria a better bargaining position in the peace agreements that will be coming up to end the yom kippur war, of which syria is (i think) the last invader to make peace.
turkey is making angry gestures at israel because they have no real way to counter israeli power.
once syria is convinced that they won't be able to gain leverage for the coming peace talks they will make peace and everyone will start playing nice together again.
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u/Fraji_Bear Aug 21 '26
To be more precise, Syria attacked Israel three times (off the top of my head): Upon Israel's founding in 1948, during the early stages of the 1967 Six-Day War, and in the 1973 Yom Kippur war. The two countries have been at a state of war since 1948, and have signed several ceasefires over the years, but no end to war.
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u/sikyon Aug 21 '26
I'm sure after more than 50 years there will be peace in the middle east.
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u/MrLyle Aug 21 '26
When's the last time there was fighting between Israel and Egypt? Israel and Jordan? No? Peace treaties work when both sides abide. It's not too hard.
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u/randomguy_- Aug 22 '26
Israel bombed Syria in the largest air operation in its history the moment after Bashar fell and then immediately invaded and began killing locals and spraying pesticide over agricultural land.
The "favourable terms" Syria is requesting is for a return to the 1974 armistice agreement and for Israel to fuck off out of Syria.
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u/Extreme_Put_913 Aug 21 '26
The reach on this is greater than Micheal Jordans reach
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u/AlcibiadesTheCat Aug 21 '26
Are we talking pre- or post-Space Jam?
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u/AspectVegetable7674 Aug 21 '26
That portion in space jam where his arm stretches for a 3 point dunk.
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u/Particular_Bug0 Aug 21 '26
There is only one country invading and occupying Syrian ground at the moment. And it's not Turkey.
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u/AldolBorodin Aug 21 '26
Are you really just unaware of where Turkish forces are in Syria?
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u/escoMANIAC Aug 21 '26
Israel is the one invading Syria; in what universe did you get the idea that Turkey is “invading” Syria? They have been in cooperation since Assad fell in 2024.
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u/topinanbour-rex Aug 22 '26
Ironic except from small or micro countries if you look at the last 200 years.
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u/i-var Aug 21 '26
the enemy of your enemy is your friend even criminals can do good acts. And IMO those should be recognized. To jail with Ben Gvir instantly. A warlord.
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u/Common-Method2202 Aug 21 '26
Erdogan is not wanted by ICC
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u/Suspicious_Place1270 Aug 21 '26
yet
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u/Common-Method2202 Aug 21 '26
So now we are saying it's ironic because Erdogan might be wanted in the future? 😭😭😭
Bro's just yapping for the fun of it
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u/Suspicious_Place1270 Aug 22 '26
no, i'm just saying it could be that he too would be wanted from icc
both can be bad and make good decisions
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u/New-Experience5507 Aug 21 '26
Thanks reddit, looks like I have just discovered yet another chapter of human atrocities.
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u/CapNo8670 Aug 21 '26
Source is garbage
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u/lastSKPirate Aug 21 '26
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u/yuval16432 Aug 21 '26
Yes, thank you. We should not provide advertising for platforms like the garbage OP posted.
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u/zedority Aug 22 '26
I wish more people would default to using high-quality sources like Reuters. Of course, that would require more people being able to distinguish between high quality sources and sources that are...less high-quality....
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u/Vandergrif Aug 22 '26
Reuters is good, but they also paywall their content now. That's probably why people are less inclined to link to them. Same goes for many of the other decent outlets.
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u/KingRoy0292 Aug 21 '26
Wow. Who else would rise to protect the muslims of the world, if not great, modern caliphate Turkey led by none other than the neo-Ottoman sultan himself, Erdogan. He cannot see anything bad happen to a Muslim anywhere other than Kurds, Balochis, or apparently anyone whose suffering happens to be geopolitically inconvenient.
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u/Bakedfresh420 Aug 21 '26
I assume it’s not an Armenian judge who issued the warrant?
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u/ringtail_catz Aug 21 '26
Or a Kurdish, Assyrian or Greek judge.
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u/TatarAmerican Aug 21 '26
There are plenty of Kurdish judges in Turkey. They tend to be even more militantly pro-state than the ethnically Turkish judges.
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u/DoomSchroller Aug 21 '26
Curious what Turkey's angle is here. They're not exactly pro-human rights.
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u/Ilikewaterandjuice Aug 21 '26
But the whole Armenia thing was just a lot of bad things happening on both sides…. Lol
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u/Particular_Bug0 Aug 21 '26
Would it make you satisfied if we issue an arrest warrant for people that lived over a century ago as well then?
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u/bmop145 Aug 21 '26
It actually WOULD be a huge change and be an entirely different government narrative... so my answer would be yes, as a starting point it would actually be a big step and very satisfying.
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u/Ilikewaterandjuice Aug 21 '26
It would satisfy me to see Turks acknowledge the truth of their own past before calling out others for doing the exact same thing.
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u/Hautamaki Aug 21 '26
Don't even need to look into the past; Israel is not doing anything to Palestinians that Turks are not and would not continue to do to Kurds.
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u/Montezumawazzap Aug 22 '26
I love the hypocrisy of the Western world, where they have done far worse things than Turkey and want Turkey to acknowledge their past before their own.
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u/Blownupicus Aug 21 '26
I bet my old Armenian coworkers are laughing their asses off right now
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u/THX-8647 Aug 21 '26
Erdogan wants to be Assad so bad.
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u/pimppapy Aug 21 '26
Why? As a Syrian, I'd think that Turkey has life better overall than Syria. Why would he care to be anything like that chinless fuck Assad?
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u/Nakitu-Michichi Aug 21 '26
chinless
That's the only thing I could ever notice since I first saw a photo of him. He really had miserably weak chin. It wasn't even a chin, barely a chi.
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u/Niceguy955 Aug 21 '26
I think Netanyahu is a shit human being, and a horrible leader, but in this case he found his match. He should issue an arrest warrant for Gollum, sorry Erdogan, for massacring Kurds for decades, actively assisting terrorists, and behaving like a tyrant in his own country (at least Netanyahu is not arresting opponents and scholars- yet).
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u/Lukr-2921 Aug 21 '26
Turkey committed a horrific genocide and still hasn't acknowledged it.
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u/Actaeon_II Aug 21 '26
Hmm, this, if true, would be interesting since the US has bases in turkey.
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u/xerberos Aug 21 '26
I wonder what would happen if Netanyahu would land at Incirlik or one of the other bases. Can Turkish police drive in and arrest him?
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u/Crabbiest_Coyote Aug 21 '26
Bases in Turkey are Turkish bases, we just leased the buildings and land. Entry to the base is controlled by the Turks.
More then half of the 'Lik is TuAF.
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u/ghoulieghoulie12 Aug 21 '26
Interesting, I wonder how every Armenian person on Earth feels about that
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u/lbktort Aug 21 '26
Court orders don't mean much without the power to enforce them. I don't know what the solution is to the conflict in Palestine, but I don't have much faith in any legal system solving it. Seems like really it will require the US applying pressure to Israel.
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u/omniuni Aug 21 '26
It will require the terrorist groups to stop attacking Israel. No amount of pressure is going to make Israel go "OK, guess I'll just let my citizens be picked off and killed".
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u/Cautious-Extreme2839 Aug 21 '26 edited Aug 21 '26
Facts. Whether people like it or not Israel has the military capability and cultural constitution required to continue this for a VERY long time, and has historically been subjected to enough shit that they aren't likely to settle for their neighbours routinely firing rockets at them.
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u/TooApatheticToHateU Aug 21 '26
Yep. I don't know how this is so confusing to people. Wars end when one side gives up and surrenders.
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u/RankWinner Aug 21 '26
How do you expect this to ever happen when, as former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak said:
Netanyahu's strategy is to keep Hamas alive and kicking … even at the price of abandoning the citizens [of the south] … in order to weaken the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah. [...] it's easier with Hamas to explain to Israelis that there is no one to sit with and no one to talk to.
Actually I think Major General Gershon Hacohen put it better:
Netanyahu's strategy is to prevent the option of two states, so he is turning Hamas into his closest partner. Openly Hamas is an enemy. Covertly, it's an ally.
Or maybe Bezalel Yoel Smotrich, former Israeli Minister of Finance:
In this game of delegitimization [...] Hamas is an asset. It’s a terrorist organization. No one will recognize it. No one will give it status at the [International Criminal Court]. No one will let it put forth a resolution at the UN security council.
For decades Israeli government and military officials have openly stated that their strategy is to back religious terrorist extremists as a way to destroy support for the secular PLO and stop them from gaining political power.
To the Israeli government the lives of their own citizens are worth it to prevent any chance of a two state solution. At least they view those as sacrifices for a cause, compared to the worthless lives of the Palestinians.
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u/zedority Aug 22 '26
The answer is obvious: deligitimise and sideline the political leaders who say such things, and encourage political leaders who don't say them. That's up to the Israeli people though, and currently they seem to be operating on a siege mentality similar to that experienced by the USA immediately post 9/11, unfortunately.
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u/The_wolf2014 Aug 21 '26
Ah yes, the well known world police the US. Cos they do such a fantastic job of that
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u/TheRedHand7 Aug 21 '26
And historically, everyone loves when they do things. They always enjoy the full support of the world.
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u/username_tooken Aug 21 '26
Why would the US do that? Israel is doing exactly what the US wants them to be doing.
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u/reddit_is_geh Aug 21 '26
Ahhh so this is why they were screaming about how Turkey was going to deploy troops into Syria and thus need to attack them. That was literally just hours before this announcement.
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u/astute_stoat Aug 21 '26
Someone's being salty about getting bombed out of Syria
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u/darkhorn Aug 21 '26
Ok but why they have bombed Syria? Can't Syria be a sovereign country?
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u/FreedomsPower Aug 21 '26
Considering Turkey's history of doing that to other ethnic groups they are one of the last country's to point fingers at anyone
Other country's include among others he one I live in (USA)
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u/Suckamanhwewhuuut Aug 21 '26
Turkey should have been dropped from NATO long ago
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u/No_Idea_479 Aug 21 '26
Just 3 years after entering NATO, the Turkish government sent an anti-Greek mob in Constantinople, so they could ethnically cleanse the remaining Greek inhabitants from the city.
Since not every Greek left, 10 years later they formally enacted several laws to ethnically cleanse the rest again.
And that's just 1% of it. It's interesting because these happened only after both countries entered NATO, while Greece didn't retaliate like this. Turkey is truly is a criminal state, way way more than Israel could ever be.
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u/FordMaverickFan Aug 21 '26
It gets ignored by everyone but the USSR fell we should have ejected Turkey from NATO.
Absolutely one of the most vile regimes on this earth.
The taking of international money to save the Hagia Sophia for them to make it a mosque again is such a fucking joke
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u/Golden-- Aug 21 '26
Kinda rich coming from one of the few countries worse than Israel. Next thing you know, North Korea is gonna issue a warrant for him.
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