Statements from President Erdoğan

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan makes a statement at the International Justice Summit. Highlights from President Erdoğan's speech are as follows:

"Welcome all of you to our beloved Istanbul, you have brought joy. I hope that the International Justice Summit will be beneficial for our countries, our people and all humanity. I would like to express my gratitude to all participants who will express their ideas and opinions during two days.

Justice is not oppressing the weak by the strong, it is the power to protect the oppressed from the oppressor. Justice is the common goal of humanity. There can be no justice where conscience and fairness are abandoned. International peace and security cannot be achieved without justice. Today, we are faced with a system that has suffered reputational erosion. The UN is not fair and healthy. International law has been almost completely suspended.

International agreements have, so to speak, become obsolete. Decisions made by international courts are equally unenforceable. There is a system that is in your hands no matter how you choose, and we all witness the problems this system causes on a global scale. The blockage in Hormuz, through which 35 percent of global oil exports pass, could not be resolved for months despite all efforts.

Gaza was turned into the world's largest concentration camp by the arrogant and murderous genocide network that sees itself above international law. "Türkiye will suffer if necessary, but it will not turn its back on the people who put their hope in it and who have been treated unfairly."