President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday urged Muslim nations to set aside their differences and unite, saying they should not rely on outside powers to safeguard regional peace and security in the face of Israel's genocidal policies and expansionist goals.
“As Muslims, we will get nowhere by placing our hopes in others. We must build peace and security in our region together. There is strength in unity,” Erdoğan said during a Mawlid al-Nabi Week event at Istanbul’s Haliç Congress Center.
He noted that Muslims must be strong, defend their own rights and interests together, and work together to build peace and security in the region.
Erdoğan strongly criticized the Israeli government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for seeking to spread instability across the Middle East through its genocidal actions in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and Lebanon.
“Israel’s current government, addicted to war, is trying every possible way to drag our entire region into instability,” he said.
