Israeli Defense Minister Calls Erdoğan a 'Paper Sultan'; Turkey Rebukes

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz called President Erdoğan a 'paper sultan' who should 'stop messing with Israel,' accusing him of financing and embracing Hamas and of dreaming of restoring the Ottoman Empire while failing to back Saudi Arabia against Houthi missile attacks despite a defense pact. Turkey's presidential communications directorate rebuked the remarks, which came after Erdoğan's September 22 UN speech branding Gaza a 'concentration camp.'