UPDATE - Those who turn blind eye to atrocities by Israel will suffer great regret, says Turkish president

UPDATES WITH MORE REMARKS BY TURKISH PRESIDENT RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN

By Muhammed Enes Calli

ISTANBUL (AA) - Those who turn a blind eye to the massacres and atrocities committed by Israel will suffer great regret, the Turkish president said on Friday.

Those who have caused the massacre of some 25,000 innocent people in Gaza, most of them women and children, will face the "burning consequences" of their actions, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at a naval delivery ceremony in the northwestern province of Yalova.

"To put it bluntly, Western countries and international security institutions, which had their latest bad test on the Gaza issue, no longer have any credibility," he added.

Those who pass judgment on human rights and freedoms have turned a blind eye to the children, babies, and women brutally killed over the last 105 days, since Israel’s attacks started on Oct. 7, he added.

"They are content to merely watch barbarities, escalating to genocide, perpetrated by today's Fuhrer (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu, his bloodthirsty team against Palestinians," he added.

He added just like in Iraq, Bosnia, Syria, Yemen, Myanmar, Somalia, and Afghanistan, the institutions responsible for ensuring global security have failed and suffered a serious loss of reputation.

Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip since a cross-border attack by Hamas on Oct. 7, which Tel Aviv says killed nearly 1,200 people.

According to the UN, around 85% of Gazans have been displaced by the Israeli onslaught, while all of them are food insecure. Hundreds of thousands of people are living without shelter, and aid trucks entering the territory total less than half the number before the start of the conflict.

On Türkiye's fight against terrorism, Erdogan said: "We will continue our determined fight against terrorism until the swamp of terrorism in Syria and Iraq is completely drained."

- First national frigate produced with domestic facilities: TCG Istanbul

At the ceremony in Yalova, the ships TCG Derya, TCG Istanbul, TCG Ustegmen Arif Ekmekci, and Marlin SIDA were all delivered to the Turkish Navy.

Stating that he believes that each ship will add more strength to the power of the Turkish Naval Forces, Erdogan said: "The TCG Derya, our replenishment combat support ship at sea, has the distinction of being the largest ship after the TCG Anadolu."

"With the commissioning of TCG Derya, the fuel and water supplies of floating troops will be replenished rapidly, and the fuel, integration, and water needs of the combat elements will be easily met in regions close to the operational area."

Stressing that the TCG Istanbul, the fifth ship of the MILGEM National Ship Project, is the first national frigate produced by Türkiye with domestic facilities, Erdogan said: "We have developed and integrated different radar, close air defense and electronic warfare systems into this ship with our own means. "

Türkiye is among only 10 countries in the world that can design, build and maintain their own warships, Erdogan said.

"Our country, which is a pioneer in the field of electronic warfare, is now one of the top three or four countries in the world in UAV and UCAV (drone and armed drone) production," he added.