Turkey urges Islamic countries to review their ties with Israel and says it will call an extraordinary summit of the world’s main pan-Islamic body after dozens of Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire on the Gaza border.
Ankara has reacted with fury to the deaths of 60 Palestinians in Monday’s clashes and protests, according to Palestinian figures, on the same day as the United States formally moved its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv in the face of international opposition.
“Islamic countries should without fail review their relations with Israel,” Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim tells his ruling party in parliament.
“The Islamic world should move as one, with one voice, against this massacre,” he adds.
Yildirim says Turkey has called an “extraordinary summit” of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Friday. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan currently holds the rotating chairmanship of the body.
— AFP
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