Turkish Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmus yesterday called for strengthened cooperation with Iran in order to resolve regional issues, Anadolu agency reported.
This came during a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on the sidelines of the 149th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Geneva, Switzerland.
During the meeting, Kurtulmus said Israel does not only target Gaza and Palestine, but also seeks to launch a greater regional attack, adding that the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which acts with religious fanaticism mentality, wants to take the attacks to a higher level.
Netanyahu has recently changed the name of the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip from the ‘Swords of Iron’ to ‘The Resurrection War’.
“At this stage, it is necessary to focus on three areas: isolating Israel on the international arena, ensuring the unity of the Islamic nation, and transforming the Palestinian issue into a common humanitarian issue, not just one that concerns Muslims,” he added.
For his part, Ghalibaf said Israel’s occupation of Palestine and the genocide in Gaza is one of the biggest issues of the 21st century, adding that the Palestinian issue has become a regional and global issue with political, security and commercial dimensions.
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