Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that Ankara supports the Palestinians in the same way it supported Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh [(Artsakh)], TASS reported.

"We are saddened and outraged by the brutality of the terrorist state of Israel. Turkey's position on this issue is fundamental. As the way we [Turkey] supported Azerbaijan's struggle for the liberation of Nagorno-Karabakh yesterday, today we are acting with the same way against the persecution of Jerusalem," Erdogan said on Turkish television, after the Friday prayer service.