Istanbul: Hakan Fidan, the foreign minister of Turkey, announced on Wednesday that his country would join South Africa's genocide case against Israel in the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
“Upon completion of the legal text of our work, we will submit the declaration of official intervention before the ICJ with the objective of implementing this political decision,” Fidan said in a joint press conference with Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi in Ankara.
“Turkiye will continue to support the Palestinian people in all circumstances,” he said, Reuters reported.
After South Africa accused Israel of state-led genocide in Gaza, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Israel in January to ensure that its troops do not perform any acts against Palestinians that may be considered a violation of the Genocide Convention.
President Tayyip Erdogan announced in January that Turkiye was supplying the World Court, or ICJ, with documents for the case.
The accusation was dismissed as baseless by Israel and its Western allies. It may take years for the International Court of Justice to rule in South Africa's case.