The G-20 summit in South Africa was an opportunity for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to meet with international leaders and promote Türkiye’s vision for greater global cooperation and lasting peace.
Speaking at a news conference on the sidelines of the summit in Johannesburg on Sunday, Erdoğan underlined Ankara’s peacemaking role. “We will be wherever a problem arises,” he told reporters as he summed up their peace diplomacy.
The situation in Gaza and the Russia-Ukraine conflict, two issues Türkiye is closely interested in, dominated the news conference, while the president said those issues also came up during his bilateral talks at the summit and at the event itself.
“A true global peace cannot be achieved with the establishment of the State of Palestine,” he said as he talked about the ongoing cease-fire in Gaza.
Erdoğan also praised the host, South Africa, which sought the punishment of Israeli officials for genocide in Gaza.
“South Africa’s unwavering support for the Palestinian cause is valuable; they demonstrated an exemplary stance against the Gaza genocide,” he said. “As the whole world was watching crimes against humanity in Gaza, our friends in South Africa did not
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