Chikli Calls Erdogan a Hitler-Sinwar Hybrid After Anti-Zionist Speech

Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli used a direct X post to rebuke Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after Erdogan framed Zionism as a genocidal, expansionist ideology and cast opposition to it as a national struggle. Chikli accused Erdogan of patronage for Hamas and ISIS and compared him to a Hitler-Sinwar hybrid, placing the exchange inside a widening diplomatic fight between Jerusalem and Ankara. Secondary reports note Erdogan's support for Hamas, Netanyahu's warning that Ankara calls for Israel's annihilation, and Israeli concern over possible U.S.-Turkey F-35 or fighter-engine access. The public response kept Ankara's rhetoric and Israel's qualitative military edge at the center of the NATO-week argument with Washington.