Turkiye joins South Africa's genocide case against Israel at ICJ

Turkiye today submitted a declaration to the UN’s highest court saying that it is joining South Africa’s genocide case against Israel. The Turkish delegation including Ambassador in the Hague, Selcuk Unal, and Justice and Development (AK) Party Istanbul lawmaker, Cuneyt Yuksel, submitted Ankara’s file to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Turkiye now joins Nicaragua, Colombia, Libya, Mexico, Palestine and Spain, who have also joined South Africa, which first filed the case in December. Yuksel told reporters before submitting the file that Turkiye has monitored the case very closely since the beginning. He stressed that Israel has failed to implement previous ICJ provisional orders and acted without recognising the law. Turkiye will now “directly intervene” in the case, Yuksel vowed. […]