President Erdoğan spoke on Gaza and Palestine issues at the UN General Assembly

President Erdoğan is making a statement at the 81st session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York, USA.

Highlights from President Erdoğan's evaluations are as follows:

"I convey my congratulations to my dear friend Mr. Guterres, who has been serving as the UN Secretary General with impartiality and courage for nearly 10 years. Mr. Mahmoud Abbas, the valuable president of the State of Palestine, officially recognized by the overwhelming majority of its member countries, cannot be in this hall for the second year in a row.

This injustice towards our Palestinian brothers hurts the conscience. Even though Mr. Abbas cannot be here in person, we will be the voice of the free and sovereign Palestinian state, just like last year, and we will continue to announce the struggle of the Palestinian people to the world from this podium.

On this occasion, I once again invite all countries that have not yet recognized the state of Palestine to review their decisions. It is enough to take a look at the table of the last year. The past 12 months have been recorded as one of the bloodiest periods of the last 30 years, with more than 60 conflicts and wars. 250 thousand people lost their lives in Gaza, Ukraine, Russia, Iran and Lebanon. Indescribable pain was experienced. Hundreds of thousands of them had to leave the lands where they were born and raised.

In the last 3 years, 74 thousand of our brothers and sisters in Gaza have become victims of Israel's state terrorism. The people of Gaza are still searching for their loved ones under the rubble. He digs up the bodies of their wives, children, mothers and fathers. Innocent children who lost their hands and feet in Israeli attacks are trying to go to school and hold on to life with prosthetics made of wood.

More than 70 percent of generators in hospitals in Gaza cannot provide service due to fuel shortage. As a father and grandfather who dotes on his children and grandchildren, I have to say this from this podium, with our conscience torn apart: Gaza is not only the largest children's cemetery in the world, but also the region with the highest child amputation rate in the world.

Gaza is the most inhumane and shameful concentration camp of our time. Even after the ceasefire reached with the efforts of President Trump and the contributions of countries including us, the number of Gaza residents murdered has exceeded 1500.

Although the Palestinian Resistance Movement has accepted the second phase of the peace plan, the Israeli government is not willing to make peace. Muslims and Christians are prevented from accessing holy places in Jerusalem. Today, I will express some facts clearly, without putting a curtain between my heart and my words. No one should be offended, sorry or offended. This is not Tayyip Erdoğan's personal issue. It is a humanitarian issue. It is a matter of conscience for all of us. We are faced with a genocidal mentality that cannot get enough of killing. "There is an extremely dire situation."