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Organisation of Islamic Cooperation should meet 'without further delay' to defend Jerusalem: Turkiye President Erdogan

September 9, 2024 at 7:48 pm

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gives a speech in Kocaeli, Turkiye on September 07, 2024. [Arif Hüdaverdi Yaman – Anadolu Agency]

Turkiye’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Monday, urged the leaders of the world’s majority-Muslim nations to meet at the leadership level “without further delay” to help defend Palestinians and Jerusalem against Israel’s attacks, nearly a year into a relentless Israeli offensive that has taken some 41,000 lives, Anadolu Agency reports.

“The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which is tasked with defending the cause of Jerusalem, cannot remain indifferent to these increasingly audacious attacks,” Erdogan said after a Cabinet meeting in the Turkish capital, Ankara.

“It’s urgent for the Organisation to convene at the leadership level without further delay and to demonstrate the decisive stance of the Islamic world,” he added.

On Israel’s killing last week of Ayşenur Eygi, a dual citizen of Turkiye and the US, during a protest against illegal Israeli settlements near Nablus in the Occupied West Bank, Erdogan said Ankara will take “every legal step” to ensure her blood “was not spilled in vain”, including by appealing to the International Court at The Hague, which has already been investigating charges that Israel has been committing genocide.

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