Turkey’s Erdogan: Muslim nations to go to UN over Jerusalem

Associated Press
Backdropped by a map of Israel and Palestine, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, 2nd left, talks during the closing news conference as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, left, listens after the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s Extraordinary Summit in Istanbul, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017. Muslim nations of the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation are rejecting US President Donald Trump’s declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and appear set to counter it with a declaration of east Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state. (Yasin Bulbul/Pool Photo via AP)

ISTANBUL: Turkey’s president says Muslim nations will ask the United Nations for an “annulment” of President Donald Trump’s controversial decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the initiative would start at the UN Security Council and if it’s “vetoed there, we will work within the UN General Assembly for the annulment of this unjust and lawless decision.”
Erdogan spoke to a rally in the central province of Konya via teleconference on Friday.
His comments followed Wednesday’s summit of Muslim and Arab nations — the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation — which declared east Jerusalem the capital of occupied Palestine and urged the world to recognize the state of Palestine.
Turkey has been one of the most vocal critics of Trump’s Dec. 6 decision on recognizing Jerusalem.

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