Istanbul, Türkiye - June 16, 2025 The attacks launched by Israel against Iran were protested in Istanbul. Hundreds of people who came together upon the call of the Palestine Action Committee marched to the Israeli Consulate General in Istanbul. Anti-Israeli slogans were chanted during the protest where Iranian and Palestinian flags were unfurled. The protesters chanted slogans such as “Murderer USA, get out of the Middle East” and “Murderer Israel, get out of Palestine” and called on Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to cut all ties with Israel. In a press statement made in front of the consulate, it was commented that Israel attacked Iran to cover up its failures in Gaza. The protesters, who described the attacks on Iran as an international crime, called for Israel to be isolated in the international arena. Naz Shakar read the press release on behalf of the Palestine Action Committee. 00:42:27 - 01:22:23 Naz Şakar: "The Zionist state of Israel, which has been waging a genocidal war against the Palestinian people in Gaza for a year and a half, recently launched a broad attack on Iran with the unlimited support of the US and declared war. Zionist Israel, which was introduced to the Middle East as an outpost by imperialism, primarily England and the US, is trying to implement its war plans in line with the imperialist design of our region. Their goal is for all the peoples of the Middle East to submit to imperialism and Zionism." 01:33:14 - 02:17:25 Naz Şakar: "Despite the brutal attack launched to break the resistance of the Palestinian people in Gaza and continuing without any rules, the imperialist-Zionist powers, who have not achieved any of their declared goals, have realized that this would mean a strategic defeat for them. For this reason, they have attempted to compensate for this failure by expanding their attacks towards Iran. While the imperialists, who see no shame in committing any crime to ensure that the peoples in our region are subject to exploitation, continue the genocide in Palestine, they are committing a new international crime by attacking Iran." 02:29:08 - 03:18:22 Naz Şakar: "The imperialists are carrying out a project centered on the security of their base, Zionist Israel, through the blood of the peoples in order to reshape the Middle East. The genocidal occupation state is trying to exploit and dominate the entire region while continuing its attacks to realize its plans to dispossess and expel the Palestinian people and the peoples of the Middle East. Opposing the attack on Iran today is part of the struggle against Zionism and imperialism and opposing the attack that the Palestinian people are subjected to. At the same time, remaining silent against this attack means approving imperialist and Zionist war policies and agreeing to the massacre of peoples." 03:33:25 - 04:09:06 Naz Şakar: "Our renewed call to the government is to immediately cut off all military, economic, political, academic and cultural relations that they have maintained with the genocidal Zionist entity until today, trying to hide under the shadow of heroism, and to impose a full embargo on this colonialist occupation state. Stopping this colonialist expansionist project can only be possible by isolating it in the international arena and making it unbearably costly for the imperialist powers."