{"id":16203,"date":"2026-06-29T15:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/06\/29\/netanyahu-erdogan-statements-against-israel-serious-us\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T15:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:00:21","slug":"netanyahu-erdogan-statements-against-israel-serious-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/06\/29\/netanyahu-erdogan-statements-against-israel-serious-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu Calls Erdogan&#8217;s Statements Against Israel &#8216;Very Serious&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel&#8217;s Prime Minister, has described recent remarks by Turkish officials against Israel as &#8220;very serious&#8221; and said he intends to share the matter with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a cabinet meeting, he said that speeches by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan contain threats that cannot be ignored. According to Netanyahu, &#8220;Rarely does a day pass without Erdogan calling for the destruction of Israel,&#8221; and he believes such statements must be closely monitored.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli Prime Minister added that the historical experience of his people shows that one must be vigilant in the face of explicit threats. He emphasized: &#8220;We take these words very seriously and do not ignore them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to reports from Israeli media, the Prime Minister&#8217;s office has also confirmed these remarks in a conversation with the Times of Israel. Netanyahu also said he will draw the attention of &#8220;American friends&#8221; to this issue.<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, verbal tensions between Turkish and Israeli officials have escalated. Notably, earlier this month, Turkey&#8217;s Interior Minister called for the &#8220;liberation&#8221; of East Jerusalem, highlighting again the deep differences between the two sides over the Palestinian issue and the status of Jerusalem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netanyahu says Erdogan&#8217;s threats against Israel are very serious and plans to raise the issue with the US amid rising Turkish-Israeli tensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}