Türkiye has warned that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will backtrack on the Gaza ceasefire agreement after all hostages are handed over.

Türkiye has warned that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will backtrack on the Gaza ceasefire agreement after all hostages are handed over.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said that developments in the region show that Netanyahu does not intend to continue the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, adding: “Once he takes all the hostages, his intention is unfortunately to resume the war, because there is no pressure or any other force other than America that can stop him.”

In a television interview on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, which aired on Monday, Fidan added that US President Donald Trump and his administration must bear responsibility for preventing another genocide in Gaza, otherwise Trump's campaign messages about stopping wars will be in vain.

Fidan expressed his hope that the negotiators from both sides (Israel and Hamas) would be able to resolve the details necessary to move to the second phase of the ceasefire agreement, noting that the next two weeks are of great importance in determining the transition to the second phase of the ceasefire that was reached through the efforts of Egypt and Qatar and with American support.

Protests against Trump plan

At the same time, Istanbul witnessed two days of intense demonstrations protesting Trump's project regarding Gaza and the displacement of its residents. The demonstrators demanded that he lift his hand from Gaza, and they also demanded that Turkey withdraw from NATO and sever all relations with Israel.

The Freedom Platform for Palestine organized a march in Taksim Square to protest Trump’s statements on Gaza, during which banners were raised that read “Zionist Trump… Take your hands off Gaza.” Protesters chanted slogans such as “Murderer America, murderer Israel,” “Trump, take your hands off Palestine,” “Zionism will be defeated, and the Palestinian people will win,” and “Gaza for the Gazans.”

The platform said in a statement, read by one of its members during the march, that “Trump’s threats regarding Gaza are part of an imperialist plan, and that the Palestinian people have been living under occupation for years, and that Trump’s plan to impose American control over the Gaza Strip and turn the region into the (Riviera of the Middle East) is nothing but a genocidal program aimed at expelling the Palestinian people from their land.”

The statement stressed that the real owner of the Palestinian land is the Palestinian people, and that the one who must leave the land of Palestine is the occupation, noting that Trump and the Israeli government tried to diminish the resistance of the Palestinian people, but the occupation that has been ongoing for months in Gaza was repelled thanks to the steadfastness of the Palestinian people, and the ceasefire agreement was a historic success for the Palestinian people, and confirmation that the people of Gaza will continue to repel the occupiers from their land despite all the attacks.

The statement called on Turkey and the Turkish people to strengthen solidarity with the Palestinian people, sever all diplomatic and trade relations with Israel, impose a comprehensive embargo on it, and for Turkey to withdraw from NATO and not support US military plans in the region.

The Communist Party and the Communist Movement in Turkey organized a demonstration in front of the Trump Tower in Istanbul, in protest against Trump’s plan for Gaza, which aims to expel Palestinians from their lands and turn Gaza into a new “ghetto” with hotels and residences to serve the wealthy.

A spokesman for the Communist Movement said that Trump's statement, "When you look at it over the years, you will always see death in Gaza," is a great hypocrisy, and that the United States is trying to evade the massacre committed by Israel with its support in Gaza, which amounts to the crime of genocide, as if it did not support the Israeli occupation and the massacre it committed for years, and did not stand by the Zionist State of Israel.

He added that the "Trump Tower" that we stand in front of today is one of the symbols of the cooperation of the capitalist class in our country with America and the imperialist powers, and we warn the "Justice and Development Party" government, which is friendly to Trump, and we confirm that its cooperative policies have, so far, led to the disintegration of the countries of the region.

“We are here to say that the name ‘Trump Tower’ does not suit our country, and we say to Trump, who believes that he can design the world as he pleases and says that he will change the names of places, that the peoples of the world will not submit to your imperialist aggression. We will erase the name of Trump and imperialism from our country, and we declare once again that we will intensify our struggle to establish an independent, enlightened, workers’ state... Long live free Palestine, and down with Zionism and imperialism.”