Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has said that Israel has become a “direct threat to global security,” warning that escalating regional conflicts now carry worldwide consequences and require a united international response.
Speaking at Oxford University on the theme of global reordering on Friday, Fidan said the world is not simply going through a geopolitical transition, but a much deeper structural transformation.
“What we are witnessing today is not a transition, but it’s rather a transformation,” he said.
He argued that states can no longer afford to depend on others for strategic survival.
“Countries can no longer outsource their security, their diplomacy or their strategic imagination,” he said.
Fidan pointed to the war involving Iran, triggered by US and Israeli strikes, as an example of how regional crises are now directly shaking global stability.
‘Regional crisis is now global’
“The distinction between regional and global crises has truly disappeared,” Fidan said, stressing that instability in the Middle East now affects global prosperity, security and supply chains.
He said the war had dealt “a heavy blow to global prosperity, security and stability.”