Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has once again addressed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, saying the latter should not be lecturing Israel on morality.
Netanyahu took to Twitter to continue the war of words with Erdogan, reminding him of what he said were Turkey's crimes:
“Erdogan is not used to being answered back to. He should get used to it. Someone who occupies northern Cyprus, invades the Kurdish regions, and slaughters civilians in Afrin should not preach to us about values and ethics,” Netanyahu tweeted in Hebrew.
Turkey invaded northern Cyprus in 1974 as a response to an attempted coup in Cyprus backed by the Greek military, and later occupied 37 percent of the country's territory. In 1983, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, created on the occupied areas, declared its independence, which was recognized only by Turkey.
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On January 20 of this year, Turkey launched Operation Olive Branch against Kurdish forces in Syria's Afrin as a response to the US' decision to start training a 30,000-strong border security force, mainly composed of the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces, which Ankara considers to have links with People's Protection Units (YPG) and Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), viewed by Turkey as terrorist organizations.
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