The Prime Minister's Office responded to Turkey's request to issue a Red Notice against Netanyahu 'for genocide,' stating that 'Israel has long been unimpressed by Turkey's hypocrisy. Erdoğan is an anti-Semitic tyrant who massacred Kurds, supports the massacre by the terrorist organization Hamas and oppresses his own people.' In a separate statement, published only in English, it was written: 'Erdoğan's pathetic attempt to intimidate Israel's leaders and soldiers, the only true democracy in the Middle East, will lead nowhere.'