Jerusalem, Aug. 21 -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office has issued a strongly worded statement against Turkey and its President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, amid soaring tensions between the two countries over Israeli airstrikes on a Syrian airbase and Ankara issuing an arrest warrant for Netanyahu.
"Erdogan now seeks to extend his aggression against Israel into Syria. Israel will not tolerate it," the Prime Minister's Office said, referring to the Israeli strike on a Syrian airbase amid concerns in Jerusalem over a potential Turkish military deployment there.
The statement repeated a series of previous Israeli accusations against Erdogan, describing him as "an antisemitic dictator who has massacred Kurds, harbours Hamas terrori...