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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday condemned Israel’s attacks on Iran as violations of international law and warned they risk igniting a broader regional crisis, during a phone call with Iranian President Mesoud Pezeshkian amid rising tensions between the two countries.
According to a statement from Türkiye’s Communications Directorate, the two leaders discussed the Israel-Iran conflict as well as wider regional and global issues.
Erdogan expressed condolences over the lives lost in the Israeli strikes and said the attacks were part of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to sabotage ongoing nuclear negotiations.
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Erdogan also noted that Israel of attempting to distract the international community from the genocide in Gaza.
The Turkish president said Ankara is closely monitoring reports of a possible nuclear leak at Iran’s Natanz facility and reaffirmed that diplomacy remains the only viable solution to the nuclear issue.
Israel launched a series of airstrikes on Iranian territory early Friday, targeting nuclear and missile infrastructure and killing senior military officials and scientists. The attacks, which continued into Saturday, have killed at least 78 people and injured 320 others, according to Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations.
Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told the U.N. Security Council on Friday that while radiation levels outside Iran’s Natanz nuclear site remained “unchanged and at normal levels,” the attacks did cause “radiological and chemical contamination inside the facilities.”
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