Turkey doesn’t have “the posh” of turning its again on Afghanistan, Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan mentioned Friday, and reported by Anadolu Information Company.
“It’s our widespread want that Afghanistan achieves lasting peace and stability,” Erdogan informed a gathering of the Parliamentary Union of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Member States (ISIPAB).
“We don’t have the posh of turning our backs on the Afghan folks,” he added.
For the reason that Taliban took energy, Turkey and Turkish support teams have despatched in depth support to the folks of Afghanistan, with Turkish officers warning in regards to the humanitarian scenario within the nation.
On the Syrian disaster, Erdogan accused the UN Safety Council of not fulfilling its duties, saying it has was “a fantastic disappointment.”
He added that nations like Turkey, that are neighbours to disaster areas, “bear the actual burden on the problem of migration and refugees, reasonably than the Western nations that are loud on the matter.”
Turkey has been a key transit level for irregular migrants who need to cross into Europe to start out new lives, particularly these fleeing struggle and persecution such because the Syrian civil struggle that started in early 2011.
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The nation already hosts 4 million refugees, greater than any nation on this planet, amid indicators {that a} new wave of Afghan refugees may head in direction of Turkey and the EU.
Concerning everlasting peace and stability for the Israel-Palestine battle, Erdogan mentioned it will possibly solely be resolved with the institution of an “unbiased, sovereign, and territorially built-in” Palestinian State, based mostly on 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.
“To make the Palestinians pay the worth of the genocide in opposition to the Jews in Europe throughout World Warfare II is unfair and unscrupulous,” he mentioned.
On Islamophobia and hate speech, Erdogan urged ISIPAB members to take “extra decisive steps.”
“We can’t permit Europe, the place 35 million Muslims from totally different origins dwell, to show right into a focus camp for our brothers and sisters,” he mentioned.
“As an organisation, we should take extra decisive steps within the combat in opposition to Islamophobia and hate speech.”
The President recalled Turkey’s assist to different nations through the coronavirus pandemic by saying that it had delivered support to 160 nations and 12 worldwide organisations in want, in addition to equipped vaccines to 11 nations.
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