Scholz against Erdogan: – “Israel’s right to exist is irrefutable for us”

“Israel’s right to exist is irrefutable for us,” Scholz told journalists on Friday evening before his meeting with Erdogan. Israel has “the right under international law to defend itself.” Addressing Erdogan, Scholz said it is “no secret” that “we have different, sometimes very different perspectives on the current conflict.”

However, he and Erdogan shared “concerns about a fire in the Middle East,” Scholz said at the press conference, which took place before a conversation and dinner between the two politicians. “Every life is worth the same,” he added. The federal government is also concerned about the “suffering of the Palestinian civilian population.” The conversation with Erdogan should be about how to prevent “further escalation in the region.”

Erdogan, for his part, denounced Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip in the German Chancellery. There ‘everything was razed to the ground’. Although “everyone” is currently talking about Hamas, the military power of the radical Islamic Palestinian organization is not comparable to that of Israel. For a solution to the conflict in the Middle East, a “two-state solution within the 1967 borders” seems necessary.

Erdogan highlights human rights violations
Erdogan was previously received by German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. According to the Federal President’s Office, Steinmeier “emphatically made the German position clear” to the Turkish head of state. A spokeswoman explains the online service He also emphasized “Israel’s right to exist and its right to self-defense.”

For his part, Erdogan told Steinmeier, according to the Turkish presidential office, that Israel’s “attacks in Palestinian areas” must end. The Turkish head of state went on to say that a response from the “whole world” to the “human rights violations” was important.