Erdoğan: Confidence in the international system, justice and law of billions of people in Gaza has also been destroyed
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's speech at the Antalya Diplomatic Forum touched upon Israel's bloodshed in Gaza, the consequences of war crimes, the path of the international community, Turkey's support to Gaza and the Palestinians, and others. Key quotes
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's speech at the Antalya Diplomatic Forum touched on Israel's bloodshed in Gaza, the consequences of war crimes, Turkey's support for Gaza and the Palestinians, and others. Azon Global collected social quotes from the speech of the President of Turkey .
As a result of Israeli attacks targeting civilian settlements, 30,000 Gazans, most of them children and women, were martyred, more than 70,000 Palestinians were injured, and nearly 2 million people were forced to leave their homes.
I want to make one thing clear here. Not only have children, women, and civilians been brutally killed in Gaza, but billions of people have lost faith in the international system, justice, and law.
When it comes to Israel, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights , the United Nations Security Council whose task is to ensure global peace, the institutions of the European Union that speak of permanent rights and laws, the international media that speak of impartiality, in short, for years we we have all seen together how helpless and unworkable these structures are, which are held up as examples and which we are told to trust and respect.
What is happening in Gaza is certainly not a war, but an attempt at genocide. Because there are morals, manners and laws that must be followed even in war. I'm talking about those who condemned babies in their mothers' arms to hunger and thirst, about those who bombed hospitals, churches, mosques, schools, universities, refugee camps and ambulances, about the barbarities that, like yesterday, targeted civilians waiting in line for food aid with treachery and dishonor.
The tragic story of 6-year-old Hind Rajab, who lost his entire family when his car was attacked by Israeli forces while searching for a safe place with his family, is actually the story of about 15,000 innocent children who died in Gaza. We as humanity could not save the life of a 6-year-old girl who said, "Are you coming to take me away, I'm scared" for 12 days. Unfortunately, we have not fully fulfilled our responsibility to Hind and other Gazan children.
Despite our efforts as Turkey since the first day of the attacks, despite the fact that we have sent up to 37 thousand tons of humanitarian aid to the region, all of our diplomatic relations at the global level, and despite the fact that we have brought more than 900 patients from Gaza , including their companions, to our country, we still carry such a shame in our hearts. we can't.
Despite the clear decision of the International Court of Justice not to allow Israel to commit genocide, the Netanyahu administration continues its occupation and extermination policy with the same recklessness as yesterday. Western countries, which have tacitly supported Israel since day one, are complicit in the bloodshed with hypocritical "You're good, dog is better than you" policies.
The international community can pay its debt to the Palestinian people only with the establishment of a Palestinian state. For this, it is important to form an independent, sovereign and geographically integrated Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital based on the 1967 borders. For this purpose, we as Turkey expressed our readiness to take responsibility, including guarantorship.
From here, I once again invite the international community to sincerely support the issue of Gaza and Palestine. I express my gratitude to all the friends of Palestine who are filling the squares almost every week around the world, denouncing the oppression and courageously speaking the truth despite all the pressure.
Source: Twitter (X) page of Fahrettin Altun, Head of the Communications Office at the Resident of Turkey
