Erdogan says Saudi-led ultimatum on Qatar ‘against international law’

25 June 2017, 2:13 pm

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan welcomes Qatar’s dismissal of a sweeping list of demands from Saudi Arabia and its allies in an escalating crisis and said the ultimatum was “against international law.”

“We welcome (Qatar’s position) because we consider the 13-point list against international law,” Erdogan is quoted as saying by the state-run Anadolu news agency.

Erdogan, who spoke to reporters after morning prayers at an Istanbul mosque, says the demands on its embattled regional ally Qatar had gone “too far.”

“What we are talking about here is an attack on the sovereign rights of a state,” he says. “There cannot be such an attack on countries’ sovereignty rights in international law.”

— AFP