According to Anadolu Agency, President Erdoğan said in a speech at the Scientific Dissemination Award Ceremony in Istanbul that the Palestinian group Hamas continues to take a patient approach to maintaining the ceasefire despite the provocations.
“While more than 270 journalists were killed in Gaza, the international press did not report the deaths of their colleagues,” Erdoğan added.
The Turkish president stressed that more than 13,500 students, 830 teachers and education staff, and 193 scientists and academics were killed by Israeli forces.
“More than 785,000 students have been deprived of their right to an education…What is happening now is a deliberate, intentional, premeditated policy of genocide,” he added.
Expressing the Turkish government’s continued determination to raise these issues, President Erdoğan said he also raised these issues in the discussions he held in South Africa last week as part of the G20 Leaders’ Summit.
Since October 2023, Israel has killed nearly 70,000 people (mostly women and children) and injured more than 170,000 in attacks in the Gaza Strip.
MNA