Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan reiterated his criticism of Israel for its bloody offensive in Gaza and stressed that the creation of a Palestinian state with a capital in East Jerusalem ‘cannot be delayed any longer’, while calling any idea that seeks to delay this goal ‘illegitimate’, in an apparent reference to Trump’s plan to transfer Palestinians from Gaza to other countries and for the United States to take over the territory.
The Turkish leader made the remarks during a joint press appearance with Indonesian President Prabawo Subianto during Erdoğan’s official visit to the Asian country. According to Turkish media reports, during his speech the Turkish president said that his country would work together with Indonesia in the reconstruction of Gaza once peace is restored in the Palestinian enclave, stressing that ‘If Gaza does not get its peace, the countries of the region will not have peace’.
‘The establishment of a Palestinian state with the 1967 borders and East Jerusalem as its capital cannot be delayed any longer’ in the face of attempts to “erode it”, the Turkish leader insisted from the city of Bogor, while praising Indonesia’s stance on the Palestinian issue. ‘Every proposal, every project that seeks to delay it, is illegitimate,’ Erdoğan added in an apparent unnamed reference to Donald Trump’s plans for the US to take control of Gaza by sending Palestinians living there to other countries, including Jordan and Egypt. ‘That would only bring more conflict, more bloodshed and more instability,’ he said.
The Turkish president recalled that the cost of the damage caused during the 15 months of Israeli attacks on Palestine is around $100 billion. ‘Remember that the principle of law says that the cost of damages should be charged to the one who inflicted them,’ he said, demanding that the Israeli government pay compensation for the destruction caused.
Turkey wants to participate in the construction of Indonesia’s new capital city
During his press appearance, Erdoğan further explained that he discussed with his Indonesian counterpart how to increase trade exchanges between the two countries in a balanced way to $10 billion, also thanking Subianto for his hospitality. ‘We have explored opportunities to increase cooperation in the defence industry. We also want to diversify our economic relations in other areas, including health, construction, energy, food and halal products,’ said the Turkish president, who recalled that relations between the two nations date back 400 years during the Ottoman Empire.
‘In particular, we want Turkish companies, which have shown their success in international projects, to participate in the construction of Indonesia’s future capital, Nusantara,’ Erdoğan stressed. In this way he was referring to former President Joko Widodo’s initiative to move Indonesia’s capital from its current location in congested Jakarta to Nusantara, a city located on the island of Borneo some 1,200 km away.
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Pablo Gómez is a specialist in Turkey and has been editor-in-chief of Hispanatolia since 2011. He has been analysing current affairs and geopolitics in Turkey and the surrounding region since 2006.
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