“We intensified our efforts for her recognition of the equal sovereignty and international equal status of the Turkish Cypriotswhich is their reserved right” asserted on Friday o Recep Tayyip Erdogan as reported by Manolis Kostidis.

“What is happening in Gaza is certainly not a war, but an attempted genocide. Because even war has a law, a way and rules that must be followed,” said the Turkish president, in a speech at the Antalya diplomacy forum.

Turkey “follows Israel’s brutality with deep concern” he said, noting the “horrific brutality targeting civilians waiting in line for help”.

The world community can repay its debt to the Palestinian people only with the establishment of a Palestinian state, Turkey’s president said.

The formation of an independent, sovereign Palestinian state of a state with territorial integrity, with East Jerusalem as its capital and based on the 1967 borders is “necessary,” Erdogan said.

The Western powers who unconditionally support Israel from the beginning they are complicit in the bloodshed with their hypocritical policies he noted.

Conflicts in Syria, Yemen, Libya and Ukraine show that the current world system has failedthe Turkish president said.