Istanbul, Turkey -Unite and confront Israel, Turkish President Recep Tayyib Erdogan has told Muslim Leaders days after scores of Palestinians were killed by Israeli snipers as they marked 70 years of Israeli occupation, Al jazeera Reported.
Accordin to Aljazeera Erdogan while speaking at an extraordinary summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Friday, said that Israel should be held accountable over the killings which drew widespread international condemnation and triggered a wave of protests from Asia, through the Middle East, to North Africa.
“To take action for Palestinians massacred by Israeli bandits is to show the whole world that humanity is not dead,” Erdogan told the group of Muslim leaders gathered in Turkey’s largest city, Istanbul, aljazeera reported.
The Turkish president described Israel’s killing of Palestinians as “thuggery, atrocity and state terror,” and said the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israels’s capital woul dinevitably haunt it, reported Aljazeera.