Turkey says Hezbollah's Nasrallah will be hard to replace

Reuters · 5d ago
Turkey says Hezbollah's Nasrallah will be hard to replace

- Turkey's foreign minister said on Saturday that Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was an important figure for Lebanon and the region and would be hard to replace after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut a day earlier.

Speaking to state broadcaster TRT Haber in New York, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan also said Turkey believed Israel would not stop in Lebanon and would spread the war in Gaza to the wider region.

He said the "helplesness" of the United States and other Western countries was allowing the violence to continue.


(Reporting by Tuvan Gumrukcu; editing by Jason Neely)

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