ISTANBUL — Turkey said on Thursday that Israel must withdraw from Syria and stop harming stabilization efforts there, after Israel stepped up air strikes in the neighbouring country and accused Turkey of trying to turn Syria into a Turkish protectorate.
"Israel has become the greatest threat to regional security" and is a "strategic destabilizer, causing chaos and feeding terrorism," the foreign ministry in Ankara said.
"Therefore, in order to establish security throughout the region, Israel must first abandon its expansionist policies, withdraw from the territories it occupies, and stop undermining efforts to establish stability in Syria," it said.
Reporting by Tuvan Gumrukcu and Jonathan Spicer; Editing by Leslie Adler
ISTANBUL — Turkey said on Thursday
that Israel must withdraw from Syria and stop harming
stabilization efforts there, after Israel stepped up air strikes
in the neighbouring country and accused Turkey of trying to turn
Syria into a Turkish protectorate.
"Israel has become the greatest threat to regional security"
and is a "strategic destabilizer, causing chaos and feeding
terrorism," the foreign ministry in Ankara said.
"Therefore, in order to establish security throughout the
region, Israel must first abandon its expansionist policies,
withdraw from the territories it occupies, and stop undermining
efforts to establish stability in Syria," it said.
Reporting by Tuvan Gumrukcu and Jonathan Spicer; Editing by
Leslie Adler
...
that Israel must withdraw from Syria and stop harming
stabilization efforts there, after Israel stepped up air strikes
in the neighbouring country and accused Turkey of trying to turn
Syria into a Turkish protectorate.
"Israel has become the greatest threat to regional security"
and is a "strategic destabilizer, causing chaos and feeding
terrorism," the foreign ministry in Ankara said.
"Therefore, in order to establish security throughout the
region, Israel must first abandon its expansionist policies,
withdraw from the territories it occupies, and stop undermining
efforts to establish stability in Syria," it said.
Reporting by Tuvan Gumrukcu and Jonathan Spicer; Editing by
Leslie Adler
...
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