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Turkey formally asks to join the genocide case against Israel at the UN court

By SUZAN FRASER, Associated Press
Published: August 7, 2024, 8:15am

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey on Wednesday filed a request with a U.N. court to join South Africa’s lawsuit accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza, the foreign minister said.

Turkey’s ambassador to the Netherlands, accompanied by a group of Turkish legislators, submitted a declaration of intervention to the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

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