Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Saturday urged greater unity among Islamic countries to resist Israeli actions and growing regional instability as he warned of attempts to impose a “new Sykes-Picot order" in the Middle East.
"We will not allow the establishment of a new Sykes-Picot order in our region with borders to be drawn in blood," Erdoğan said at the 51st Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Istanbul.
He described the conditions in Gaza as worse than those of Nazi concentration camps, noting that "2 million of our sisters and brothers in Gaza have been struggling to survive under these conditions for 21 months."
Erdoğan said over 55,000 Palestinians, more than 65% of them women and children, have been killed in Israeli attacks, and 128,000 others have been injured.
He extended his condolences to the victims and wished a speedy recovery to the injured, saying Türkiye deeply shares in the sorrow and pain of the Palestinian people.
