Greta Thunberg at COP: Turkish energy shipments 'directly fuelling the genocide of Palestine'

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Greta Thunberg at COP: Turkish energy shipments 'directly fuelling the genocide of Palestine' Submitted by Katherine Hearst on Fri, 11/13/2026 - 13:08 Activists point to an…

Activist Greta Thunberg has called for an end to Turkish fuel shipments to Israel at the Cop 31 climate conference in Turkey’s Antalya, as a new report has revealed that 77 crude oil shipments left Turkish ports for Israel in violation of Ankara’s energy embargo.

Thunberg, who addressed a packed press conference on Thursday alongside activists from Nepal, Australia, Palestine and Canada, called on Ankara to “stop the transfer of oil and energy from its territory to Israel”, which she said is “directly fuelling the genocide of Palestine”.

Her comments came shortly after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared in his opening address to the conference that Gaza has suffered "not only a genocide but also an ecocide", and called for the immediate entry of aid into the war-torn enclave.

Turkey's minister of environment and COP31 president, Murat Kurum, told Turkish media earlier this week that Turkey did not invite Israel’s leaders to participate at the summit due to the mass killings of Palestinians in Gaza.

The campaign group Energy Embargo for Palestine (EFFP) told Middle East Eye that while they welcomed these statements and actions, an "uncomfortable contradiction still follows Türkiye throughout COP".

"How can a government present itself as a climate leader while its territory remains an essential element of supply chains providing oil to Israel during its genocidal assault on Palestinians?" a spokesperson for the group said.

Turkey - which is jointly hosting this year's climate conference with Australia - is coming under increasing scrutiny for continued shipments of Azerbaijani crude, which is pumped through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline from Azerbaijan and shipped out from the Turkish port of Ceyhan.

An updated report jointly authored by EFFP, the Palestinian Youth Movement and the Progressive International revealed last week that 77 crude oil shipments - totalling nearly 6,463 kilotonnes - left the Turkish port of Ceyhan for Israel between May 2024…

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