"This meeting is a great opportunity to discuss the problems of the Islamic world. Because we can resolve every problem as long as we are united," he said.
"When Israel killed more than 2,500 people, including women and children last year, no western country or the UN condemned Israel for its terrorist deeds as they condemned the French attacks."
On Jan. 7, 12 people were killed when masked gunmen attacked the Paris headquarters of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which is known for printing controversial material, including cartoons of Prophet Muhammad in 2006 and 2012. Two days later, four other people were killed in a kosher supermarket in Paris by another gunman.
"There are also several attacks in Nigeria, Libya and in Iraq; why the west does not react against all these terrorist deeds equally?" he asked.
"If the west only condemns the killings targeting the artists or the journalists, then what about the journalists killed by Israel in Palestine in the past years?" Erdoğan said.
"Terrorists and terrorist groups can never be representatives of Muslims or the Islamic world and to incite western countries against Muslims is really dangerous. The deeds of the terrorists and the terrorist groups are not the concern of Muslims," he said.
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