Thousands have turned out for a pro-Palestinian rally in Istanbul, after sustained Israeli bombardment in the Gaza Strip and warnings about a ground attack there.
“They’ve been chasing people out of their homes for years. Now they’re not killing people one by one day by day, they’re killing them en masse,” said one of the marchers, Bayram Atabey, a shopkeeper in his thirties.
“This is what Israel is doing and we are protesting against it,” he added at the rally organised by a group allied to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AKP party.
This week the Turkish president denounced “the indiscriminate massacre of innocent people in Gaza”, asserting that Israel “does not behave like a state”
Source: Aljazeera
