ANKARA (Reuters) – Though he did not specify what kind of intervention he was proposing, President Tayyip Erdogan stated on Sunday that Turkey might enter Israel as it had done in the past in both Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh.

Erdogan, a vocal opponent of Israel’s Gaza offensive, brought up the subject of that conflict in a speech honoring his nation’s defense sector.

“To prevent Israel from doing these absurd things to Palestine, we must be really powerful. Erdogan said at a gathering of his ruling AK Party in his hometown of Rize, “We might do similar to them just like we entered Karabakh, just like we entered Libya.”