Turkey will not allow the issue of Israel’s nuclear weapons to be removed from the global agenda, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday, while calling European support for Israel an atonement for the “shame of the Holocaust”, Reuters reported.

Speaking after a cabinet meeting, Erdogan said the West was trying to “justify” Israel’s war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, adding that Western countries had a “brotherhood of lies” with Israel that he called “shameful.” .

“The shame of the Holocaust has literally taken European leaders hostage,” he said. “We, as Turkey, will not let Israel’s nuclear problem be forgotten,” Erdogan added.

Earlier this week, Erdogan asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to declare whether he has nuclear weapons and raised the issue again Saturday in a discussion with reporters, calling for nuclear inspections.

“We, Turkey, make this appeal. Israel’s nuclear weapons must be checked, without a doubt, before it is too late. We will control it,” he said.

The Turkish leader said on Saturday that Turkey would make efforts to rebuild Gaza’s damaged infrastructure, hospitals and schools if a truce is reached.

“If a truce is reached, we will do everything necessary to compensate for the destruction caused by Israel,” Erdogan told reporters on his plane back from Berlin, where he was holding talks with German leaders.

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