Netanyahu answering to Turkey's
Erdogan in an X-post on June 10
Turkey and Saudi Arabia signed landmark agreements Tuesday for a new railway line connecting the countries via Syria and Jordan, aiming to extend it in the future to Oman to serve as an overland trade route bypassing the Strait of Hormuz, a central oil trade route currently blockaded by the US and Iran amid their war.
Ankara boasted that the project would reduce Israel’s regional influence, and various commentators said the development sidelined the Jewish state’s attempts to set up railway trade routes from East Asia to Europe passing through the country.
US President Donald Trump hails Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in response to a question about the latter’s recent threats against Israel.
A reporter in the Oval Office notes the recent call from Erdogan for countries to confront Israel due to what he said were its destabilizing activities throughout the region, and the journalist asks Trump whether he’s concerned about a confrontation between Jerusalem and Ankara, and whether he still plans to sell Turkey F-35 fighter jets.
“As you know, he’s a very good friend of mine, and we’ve worked very well together. I like him a lot,” Trump responds, avoiding any comment on Erdogan’s threats against Israel.
Trump tells reporters that he hasn’t heard about Erdogan’s latest criticism of Israel but that if he did, he’d call the Turkish leader and make sure that “nothing would happen with Turkey.”
Earlier today, Erdogan said Israel’s attacks on Syria and Lebanon reached a point where they also threaten Turkey, adding Israel’s “aggression” poses a threat to the whole world and must be stopped. Netanyahu shouted back by calling Erdogan an “antisemitic dictator.”
[Times of Israel on June 10]
Headlines quoted from an AL-Jazeera video
about Trump's press conference on June 10:
صحفي لترمب: هل تتوقع مواجهة بين إسراىيل و تركيا؟
و هل ستبيعون طاىرات إف35 إلى تركيا؟
Journalist asking Trump: Do you foresee a confrontation between Israel and Turkey ?
And will you sell F-35 planes to Turkey ?
Bombing of the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas as
reported by Al-Jazeera TV on June 11, 2026
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