



The extremist Kurdish Islamist party in Turkey proposed a bill in parliament on Tuesday that would revoke the citizenship of Turkish nationals who served in the Israeli military in Gaza and allow for the confiscation of their assets.
“We believe that Turkish-Israeli dual citizens who join the Israeli army and commit crimes against humanity should be stripped of their citizenship and have their assets confiscated,” Serkan Ramanli, a member of the Turkish Free Cause party said in a statement. “Therefore, we are presenting this bill.”
“According to international agreements, we must actively combat genocide and crimes against humanity. However, the Ministry of Justice has not taken any steps in this direction so far,” he continued. “Why have we been waiting for nine months?”
Ramanli added that confiscated assets would be donated to a “Family and Youth Fund,” a government welfare program that deals with stabilizing families and supporting at-risk youth.
It is unclear how many soldiers the bill could potentially affect, as there is no official figure regarding the number of Turkish nationals in the IDF.
In January, the Turkish Minute news site reported that two Turkish-Israeli women were investigated by Turkish authorities after enlisting in the IDF in the wake of the Hamas October 7 massacres.
South Africa also proposed measures against its citizens who had served in the IDF, threatening to arrest them if they were to return to the country.
The Free Cause party is considered an ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development party, having supported the incumbent in the country’s last two elections.
The party, which has four seats out of the 600 in the Grand National Assembly, is seen as the political wing of the Iranian-backed Kurdish Hezbollah terrorist group, which is unrelated to the Lebanese terror group of the same name.
Since war broke out between Israel and Hamas, Erdogan has been one of the most outspoken world leaders against Israel among countries who hold diplomatic relations with it.
Under Erdogan’s leadership, Turkey halted all trade with Israel in May. The Turkish leader has also been unabashedly supportive of the terror group Hamas and has compared Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler.
Turkey also arrested an Israeli soccer player in January who played in the Turkish league for making a public gesture in solidarity with hostages held by Hamas. In May, Turkish airport workers refused to refuel an Israeli plane that made an emergency landing in Ankara.
War broke out on October 7 when Hamas terrorists carried out a massacre in Israel, which saw some 1,200 people killed, mostly civilians, and 251 kidnapped.
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 38,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 15,000 combatants in battle and some 1,000 terrorists inside Israel during the October 7 attack.