Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on May 16 said the United Nations has “finished” and “collapsed” in the face of Israeli brutality in the Gaza Strip.
“The U.N. is finished, ended, collapsed. At this moment I cannot reach the U.N. secretary general despite having a good friendship [with him],” Erdoğan said at a fast-breaking dinner in Ankara.
“We will never allow Jerusalem to be usurped by Israel. We will support the struggle of our brothers until the days when Palestinian lands – which have long been occupied – will have peace and security within the borders of a free Palestinian state,” he added.
“We will not remain silent to Israel even though the world closes its eyes to this oppression,” Erdoğan said.
Earlier, he announced a mass rally to be held on Friday (May 18) in Istanbul’s Yenikapı Square to show solidarity with the Palestinians.
Turkey, as term president of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), called for an emergency OIC summit, also on May 18, in Istanbul to discuss joint action against Israel.
Erdoğan reportedly urged OIC member states to take a “common stance” on the Gaza killings in phone calls with Indonesian President Joko Widodo, Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, and Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.
He stated that the U.S. decision to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem had “made a mockery of” the Israeli government, vowing to continue supporting the Palestinians “not only with our heart but also by every means available.”
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This is nothing new, the muslims are united under islam anyway.