ParsToday - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has hit back at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the latter accused Turkey of invading Cyprus.

According to Press TV, Erdogan said in Istanbul on Sunday “By accusing of invasion in Cyprus, the Israeli prime minister may have confused his language. Rather, he wanted to say that they are invading Palestine and murdering women and children.”

“Netanyahu,” he continued, “you are banging on the wrong door. Erdogan is the voice of the oppressed, you are the voice of the tyrants. Netanyahu, you are the tyrant. Turkey is fighting terrorists. Israeli slaughterers have no right to blame anyone if they do not give their own account first.”

Erdogan's remarks came in response to a tweet posted by Netanyahu earlier in the day in which he slammed the Turkish presence in the north of Cyprus.

“Erdogan – the occupier of northern Cyprus, whose army massacres women and children in Kurdish villages, inside and outside Turkey – should not preach to Israel,” he said.

Reacting to the tweet of Saturday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called Netanyahu "a cold-blooded killer of modern times."

He added that Netanyahu is “responsible for massacres of thousands of Palestinians, bombing children on beaches. Turkey will never stop exposing the truth.”

The latest wave of war of words is not the first of its kind. In April, Netanyahu launched a rhetorical attack against Erdogan over Cyprus after the Turkish leader called Israel a “terrorist regime” following the Israeli army’s massacre of Palestinian protesters in Gaza.

“Erdogan is not used to being answered back. He must learn to get used to it. He who occupies northern Cyprus and the Kurdish zone and slaughters civilians in Afrin, cannot make us preach values and morality,” Netanyahu said back then.

For over 40 years, Cyprus has been divided into the Greek mainland and a breakaway called Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, which is solely recognized by Ankara. The area is about a third of Cyprus and has about 20 percent of the island's population.