Fatih Altaylı reacts to deputy minister who told Netanyahu 'you will croak'

Journalist and author Fatih Altaylı criticized Deputy Minister of National Education Nazif Yılmaz, who said "You will croak" in response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's post stating, "We are continuing with all our might."

Stating that AKP Chairman and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has maintained a "sensible, balanced, and correct stance" in the Israel-Hamas war, Altaylı criticized the deputy minister in his column today, saying:

"As a private citizen, Nazif Yılmaz can of course do this. He could even say more. But this gentleman is a deputy minister. He is both a bureaucrat and a political figure within the new administrative system. Does he have the right to say such a thing in this position!

Think about it, for example, if the US Deputy Secretary of Defense were to get angry at Turkey and say 'You will croak' to our President, what would we think and feel? Or if a European deputy minister did the same thing.

A mindset that doesn't even realize the meaning of what it has done, that would unnecessarily get the country into trouble, and even politically corner and humiliate the President, is sitting in the deputy minister's chair today.

Moreover, he is a deputy minister in a ministry to which we entrust our children. Try to be hopeful about the future. If you can."

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