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Monday, September 30, 2024
Turkey’s Erdogan urges UN to recommend force if Security Council doesn’t stop Israel
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks at the presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey, on September 4, 2024. (AP/ Francisco Seco)
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan calls on the United Nations General Assembly to recommend the use of force, in line with a resolution it passed in 1950, if the UN Security Council fails to stop Israel’s strikes on Iran-backed terror groups in Gaza and Lebanon.
“The UN General Assembly should rapidly implement the authority to recommend the use of force, as it did with the 1950 Uniting for Peace resolution, if the Security Council can’t show the necessary will,” Erdogan says after a cabinet meeting in Ankara.
He also urges Muslim countries to take economic, diplomatic and political steps against Israel to pressure it into accepting a ceasefire, and repeats his claim that Israel will target them too if it is not stopped soon.
