The Israeli govenment has labelled Turkey “a de facto executive arm of Hamas” after Turkish police detailed footballer Sagiv Jehezkel, Antalyaspor’s Israeli defender who displayed solidarity with people held hostage by the Hamas militant organisation during a top-flight league game.
The Turkish justice minister Yilmaz Tunc said on Sunday that Jehezkel was under investigation over possible charges of “openly inciting the public to hatred and hostility”. Tunc maintained in a statement posted on X that Jehezkel had engaged in “an ugly gesture in support of the Israeli massacre in Gaza”.
