Istanbul - Saba:
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday evening that the conditions facing Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are worse than Nazi concentration camps.
This came in a speech he delivered at the 51st meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) held in Istanbul.
Erdogan added, "Two million of our brothers in Gaza have been struggling for their lives for 21 months in conditions even worse than Nazi concentration camps."
He explained that more than 55,000 people have been killed in Israel's attacks on Gaza, more than 65 percent of whom were women and children.
He expressed Turkey's solidarity with the Palestinian people's pain and grief, adding, "Let our Palestinian brothers know that no matter how intense the darkness of injustice today, justice will prevail, God willing, and victory will inevitably belong to the faithful."
Erdogan pointed out that Israel's policies of occupation, theft, destruction, and massacres have gradually increased over the past two years.
He said, "Israel, which enjoys unconditional support from Western powers, continues to drag our region into a state of instability."
He added that Israel "has turned Gaza into a colossal wreckage before the eyes of the entire world, bombing health facilities, schools, mosques, and churches. It has brutally killed people waiting in aid lines simply to receive a bag of flour, a bowl of soup, or a piece of dry bread."
"Every day, hundreds of innocent civilians are deliberately killed by Israeli forces, most of them children and women," the Turkish president said.