{"id":30053,"date":"2024-08-07T19:23:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=30053"},"modified":"2024-08-07T19:23:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T16:23:00","slug":"turkey-submits-request-to-join-genocide-case-against-israel-in-un-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/07\/turkey-submits-request-to-join-genocide-case-against-israel-in-un-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Submits Request to Join Genocide Case Against Israel in UN Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Turkey on Wednesday filed a request with a UN court to join South Africa\u2019s genocide lawsuit against Israel, the foreign minister said.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey\u2019s ambassador to the Netherlands, accompanied by a group of Turkish legislators, submitted a declaration of intervention to the International Court of Justice in The Hague.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey, one of the fiercest critics of Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza, becomes the latest nation to seek to participate in the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo country in the world is above international law,\u201d Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Oncu Keceli said in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe case at the International Court of Justice is extremely important in terms of ensuring that the crimes committed by Israel do not go unpunished.\u201d<br \/>\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Israel of genocide, called for it to be punished in international courts and criticized Western nations for backing Israel.<\/p>\n<p>In May, Turkey suspended trade with Israel, citing its assault on Gaza. In contrast to Western nations that have designated Hamas as a terrorist organization, Erdogan has commended the group, calling it a liberation movement.<br \/>\nSouth Africa brought a case to the International Court of Justice late last year, accusing Israel of violating the genocide convention through its military operations in Gaza.<br \/>\nIsrael has strongly rejected accusations of genocide and has argued that the war in Gaza is a legitimate defensive action against Hamas militants for their Oct. 7 attack in southern Israel that killed around 1,200 people and in which 250 hostages were taken.<br \/>\nNicaragua, Colombia, Libya, Mexico, Spain and Palestinian officials have sought to join the case. The court\u2019s decision on their requests is still pending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies Turkey on Wednesday filed a request with a UN court to join South Africa\u2019s genocide lawsuit against Israel, the foreign minister said. Turkey\u2019s ambassador to the Netherlands, accompanied by a group of Turkish legislators, submitted a declaration of intervention to the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Turkey, one of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30054,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30053\/revisions\/30054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}