Istanbul (December 12, 2017): Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan slammed Israel as a state defined by occupation and terror in his inaugural address to Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) extraordinary summit on the US recognition of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital.
Turkish President Erdogan has called extraordinary OIC summit in capacity of OIC president to rally for a coordinated response to the US move on Jerusalem.
“Israel is a state of occupation. Besides this, Israel is a state of terror,” Erdogan said in his inaugural address to the summit.
The Turkish president urged the world to recognise occupied East Jerusalem as the “capital of Palestine” in response to the recognition of the city by President Donald Trump as Israel’s capital.
“I am inviting the countries who value international law and fairness to recognise occupied Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine,” Erdogan said, adding that Muslim countries would “never give up” on this demand.
Palestinian President Mahmood Abbas in his address called the decision of US President Donald Trump a ‘flagrant violation of international law’.
According to the Palestinian President, the decision of Trump could be used by extremists to ‘turn a political struggle into a religious one.”
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi arrived in Istanbul on Tuesday to attend the summit accompanied by Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif and Chief Minister Punjab Shehbaz Sharif.
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